Robert Sternberg Educator Quotations

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 the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.

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?

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 and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.

When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs.

Research has shown that IQ type tests account for about 10% of the variation in how successful people are in various aspects of their adult lives.

The first is, what our studies show is that if kids learn creatively and practically, they learn better, even if the tests are for memory.