"And if we don't have a test, what……" — Robert Sternberg
"And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?"
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Robert Sternberg
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28 Quotes by Robert Sternberg
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Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these…
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There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
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The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why…
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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And…
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The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to…
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I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing…
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There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
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And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you…
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If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this…
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I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll…
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So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
— Hank Azaria
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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