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What teachers need to know about intelligence – Part 2: The effects of education

May 22, 2017 | Category: psychology
In Part 1 of this series I laid out why IQ matters and that, far from being a banal measure of merely of how well some people do in a series of irrelevant tests, IQ actually has real power to predict...

What teachers need to know about intelligence - Part 1: Why IQ matters

May 21, 2017 | Category: psychology
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.Montaigne Although it’s become a truism to say we know relatively little about how our brains work, we know a lot more now than we used...

A summary of my arguments about education

Apr 13, 2017 | Category: psychology
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. Oliver Goldsmith A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot Debating ideas in edu...