Quotes by Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg

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 companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.

Funny

Graduation

Inspirational

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Creative

Order

Skills

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 materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

Long

Looks

Population

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 was stupid and when people think you’re stupid, they have low expectations for you.

School

Stupid

Teacher

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 little box and then do their research inside it.

Done

Research

Self Esteem

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 half of intelligence- the asking of questions.

Ignorance

Missing

Practice

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

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Psychology

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 the introductory courses.

Creative

Projects

Wells

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.

Groups

Kids

Math

If there’s going to be an SAT, it’s probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I’m sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

Book

School

Sorry

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Funny

Graduation

Groups

Hate

Ignorance

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Knowing

Long

Looks

Love

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Math

Missing

Obvious

Order

Passion

Population

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Projects

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Research

School

Self Esteem

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Quotes by Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg

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 companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they’re getting the business.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

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 materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

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 was stupid and when people think you’re stupid, they have low expectations for you.

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 little box and then do their research inside it.

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 half of intelligence- the asking of questions.

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

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 the introductory courses.

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.

If there’s going to be an SAT, it’s probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I’m sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

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