All Robert Sternberg Quotes
- Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital… Answer
- There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them. Great
- The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by… Ability
- ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the… Act
- The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly. Act
- I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in… All
- There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another. Famous
- And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing… Factor
- If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very… Adapting
- I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids… Algebraically
- So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially… Accommodations
- In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have… Ability
- You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens. Act
- But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I… Any
- Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Best Work
- All of the studies we do in my group are quantified. All
- The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent… Ability
- In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on… Better
- But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this… Box
- And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing. Changing