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Robert Sternberg

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing."

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Donna Grant

"There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play."

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Donna Grant

"I feel happy to terrify kids."

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Donna Grant

"Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything."

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Donna Grant

"My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids."

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Donna Grant

"He just had a very unique way of expressing himself physically with his kids."

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Donna Grant

"I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to kids play a lot."

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Donna Grant

"We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed."

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Donna Grant

"The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes."

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Robert Sternberg
"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."

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Robert Sternberg
"If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway."

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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."

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Robert Sternberg
"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."

People

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

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Robert Sternberg
"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."

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Robert Sternberg
"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?"

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Robert Sternberg
"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."

Research

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Robert Sternberg
"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."

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Robert Sternberg
"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."

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