Ability Quote by L. Todd Rose

Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really…

— L. Todd Rose

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

— L. Todd Rose

When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy…

— L. Todd Rose

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

— L. Todd Rose

Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended…

— L. Todd Rose

I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they…

— L. Todd Rose

We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots,…

— L. Todd Rose

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

— L. Todd Rose

That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely…

— L. Todd Rose

Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

— L. Todd Rose

Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

— L. Todd Rose

Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only…

— L. Todd Rose