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
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
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesnt correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. – Robert Sternberg
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