Robert Sternberg Quotes

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

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Look, Creative

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Look

• 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?

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Back, Parents

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

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Group, Studies

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Big, Lose

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Believe, Hurts

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Stupid

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Little

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kids, Often

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Book

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Words

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teacher, Words

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Words

• There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teacher, Unique, Recipe

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

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passion, Commitment

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Kinds

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judge, Creative

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

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem, Changed

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Important

• 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.

  Robert Sternberg

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Better

Robert Sternberg (22)

Birth:	8th December, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

About

Robert Jeffrey Sternberg is an American psychologist, and psychometrician, Professor of Psychology and Provost at Oklahoma State University. He was formerly the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University, and the President of the American Psychological Association.

Related Authors

• Herb Goldberg
• Peter Hobson
• Steven Pinker
• Walter B. Pitkin
• Brian Baird
• Stuart Sutherland
• Rollo May
• J. Martin Kohe
• Stanley Smith Stevens
• Nathaniel Branden

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 9th December

Births

• 1972 - Tre Cool
• 1946 - Sonia Gandhi
• 1949 - Tom Kite
• 1912 - Thomas P. O'Neill
• 1934 - Judi Dench

Deaths

• 1971 - Ralph Bunche
• 1874 - Ezra Cornell
• 1982 - Leon Jaworski
• 1858 - Robert Baldwin
• 2002 - Mary Hansen