"I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've……" — Robert Sternberg
"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 doing well."
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28 Quotes by Robert Sternberg
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- ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And…
- The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to…
- I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing…
- There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
- And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you…
- If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this…
- So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the…
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- You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
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