“Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.” FourCriticismIntelligentComprehensionInventiveness Author:Alfred Binet
“Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.” KnowsMindChildrenStatesAbleSciencePurposeOrderLimitsNormalIntellectualCapacityIntelligentRegardDiagnosisRetardedUnansweredPrognosis Book:Works on Psychometrics Source: Works on Psychometrics
“Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.” TryingSeemsIndividualGivenMoralIntelligentPhilosopherFixedProtestPessimismQuantityApprovalBrutalVerdict Author:Alfred Binet
“A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.” IndividualMemoriesAttentionPracticeModernJudgmentTrainingIncreaseIntelligentMethodPhilosopherManageFixedProtestPessimismQuantityBrutalOur Memories Author:Alfred Binet
