Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Education

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Intelligence

What to make of all of this? I say, pay one's respect to school and to IQ tests, but do not let them dictate one's judgment about an individual's worth or potential. In the end, what is important is an individual's actual achievements in the realms of work and personal life. ~ Howard Gardner, Extraordinary Minds, p. 42

"I am an average man with less than an average ability. I admit that I am not sharp intellectually. But I do not mind. There is a limit to the development of the intellect but not of that of the heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi as quoted in Howard Gardner, Extraordinary Minds, p. 113

Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form, overleaps the wall, detects intrinsic likeness between remote things, and reduces all things into a few principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect"

Everybody knows as much as the savant. The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect"

The truth and grandeur of their thought is proved by its scope and applicability, for it commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect"

To judge well, to comprehend well, to reason well, these are the essentials of intelligence. ~ Alfred Binet

Intelligence is the aggregate of global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with the environment. ~ David Wechsler

Intelligence is what an IQ test measures. ~ Boring

The power of good responses from the point of view of truth or fact. ~ E. L. Thorndike

The ability to carry on abstract thinking. ~ L. M. Terman

Having learned, or ability to learn, to adjust oneself to the environment. ~ S. S. Colvin

Ability to adapt oneself to relatively new situations in life. ~ R. Pintner

The capacity for knowledge and knowledge possessed. ~ VA. A. C. Henson

A biological mechanism by which the effects of a complexity of stimuli are brought together and given a somewhat unified effect in behavior. ~ J. Peterson

The capacity to inhibit an instinctive adjustment, the capacity to redefine the inhibited instinctive adjustment, in the light of imaginally experienced trial and error, and the volitional capacity to realize the modified instinctive adjustment into overt behavior to the advantage of the individual as a social animal. ~ L. L. Thurstone

The capacity to acquire capacity. ~ H. Woodrow

The capacity to learn or to profit by experience. ~ W. F. Dearborn

Intelligence is the mental capability of emitting contextually appropriate behavior at those regions in the experiential continuum that involve response to novelty or automatization of information processing as a function of metacomponents, performance components, and knowledge-acquisition components. ~ Robert Sternberg

Intelligence is internalized operations. ~ Jean Piaget

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form, overleaps the wall, detects intrinsic likeness between remote things, and reduces all things into a few principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Intellect"

"I am an average man with less than an average ability. I admit that I am not sharp intellectually. But I do not mind. There is a limit to the development of the intellect but not of that of the heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

I say, pay one's respect to school and to IQ tests, but do not let them dictate one's judgment about an individual's worth or potential. In the end, what is important is an individual's actual achievements in the realms of work and personal life. ~ Howard Gardner, Extraordinary Minds

Be patient, then, and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important. ~ William James, Talks to Teachers

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