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Born stupid

Sep 15, 2018 | Category: Featured

If I've learned anything over the last year or so it's that intelligence - whatever we believe that to be[1] - is not innate. Whilst it seems hard to deny that some of our potential for becoming intel...

#intelligence #Michael Oakeshott

The Case Against Education

Mar 17, 2018 | Category: Featured

I've been reading the economist Bryan Caplan's new book, The Case Against Education with great interest. His is very much a contrarian point of view: that most of the time and effort spent on the proj...

#intelligence #Bryan Caplan #signalling

Can we develop a 'love of learning'?

Jan 13, 2018 | Category: Featured

The scholar and the world! The endless strife, The discord in the harmonies of life! The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books; The market-place, the eager love ...

#intelligence #IQ #environment #genes #health

Teaching to make children cleverer: Part 1

Jan 05, 2018 | Category: Featured

I've argued previously that the aim of education ought to be to make children cleverer. If I'm right, then not only is it desirable, it's also possible to achieve this end. But before we can do so, we...

#intelligence #James Flynn

Are IQ tests biased or meaningless?

Sep 15, 2017 | Category: Featured

Since my last foray into the world of intelligence testing, I've done a lot of reading about the idea that a) IQ tests are culturally biased and b) that the entire concept of intelligence is culturall...

#intelligence #IQ tests #Jarred Diamond #Richard Haier #Robert Serpell

Whatever the question is, intelligence is the answer

Jun 25, 2017 | Category: Featured

Here are the slides I used in the talk I gave at this year's Education Festival: Whatever the question is, intelligence is the answer from David Didau The antipathy of very many otherwise sensible...

#intelligence #IQ

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...

#intelligence #IQ #James Flynn

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...

#Steven Pinker #intelligence #IQ

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...

#memory #evolution #intelligence #Flynn effect

One more thing I want from school leaders

Dec 09, 2015 | Category: leadership

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.Goethe A few weeks back I wrote this post laying out my wishlist for the 'perfect' school leader. Since then,...

#Dunning-Kruger #intelligence #Linda Gottfredson #Stuart Richie