To the Kenyan families, school doesnt really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, theyre spending their time learning things that are important to them. – Robert Sternberg
If youre not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you cant think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. – 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 theyre getting the business. – Robert Sternberg
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who cant learn well that way dont have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teachers teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. – Robert Sternberg