Robert Sternberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Love #Work #Commitment
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Jobs #Thinking #Environment
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Teacher #Unique #Recipes
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Thinking #Knowing #Essence
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Doe #Success In Life #Academic
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Graduation #Country #Incentives
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Teacher #Stupid #School
You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Betrayal #Hate #Passion
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Teacher #Teaching #Kids
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Children #Example #Disability
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Kids #Math #Statistics
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...
-- Robert Sternberg

#Ignorance #Practice #Missing
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Support #Stupidity #Research
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Psychology #Obvious
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Creative #Projects #Wells
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.
-- Robert Sternberg

#Long #Looks #Population

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