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Robert Sternberg, born on December 8, 1949, is a renowned psychologist known for his significant contributions to the fields of cognitive psychology, intelligence theory, love theory, and creativity research.

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“You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.”

Happens Hate Passion And Love Betrayal Love And Passion

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“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.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.”

Doe Academic Success In Life Academic Success

Book:College Admissions for the 21st Century

Source: College Admissions for the 21st Century

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

Psychology Majors

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“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.”

Want Wells Littles Self Done Self Esteem Research Tests Boxes Esteem Psychologist High Self Esteem

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

World Needs Looks Order Creative Succeed Skills Order To Succeed

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“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.”

Ifs Book Kids School Courses Class Clear Training Sorry Practicals Sat I'm Sorry

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“Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.”

Firsts Wells Two Shows Jobs Study Practicals Dozen

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“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”

Love Stills Passion Work Commitment Intimacy Developing Fades Best Work True Passion

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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 tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions.”

Answers Half Practice Missing Ignorance Tests Asking Currents Testing

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“There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.”

Teacher Unique Recipes Great Teacher

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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 this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.”

World Ability Millions Support Industry Research Dollars Determine Stupidity Engaging Million Dollars Breathtaking

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“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.”

Inspirational Country Funny Company Blame Sat Graduates Locks Graduation Incentives Admission Mind Your Own Business

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“The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.”

Thinking Seems Knowing Essence

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“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.”

Wells Courses Creative Materials Projects Learners Memorizing

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“There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.”

Psychology Obvious

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“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.”

Looks Kind Long Can Do Situation Study Materials Findings Population Factors Again And Again Testing Wrong Things

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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 society because there are very few jobs for you left.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Jobs Left Loses Environment Think Big This Society Adapting Changing Environment

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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 have one group of kids doing well.”

Ifs Wells Kids Courses Found Teach Groups Taught Math Statistics Formulas

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“So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.”

Ifs Kind Children Example Consequence Disability Concrete Accommodations Learning Disability

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“In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.”

Ifs Way Wells May Facts Kids Ability Teach Teacher Teaching One Way

Author:Robert Sternberg

About the Author

Born: December 8, 1949
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 21

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