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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Can we improve school interviews? Part 1: A brief review of the research

May 09, 2017 | Category: leadership

Recruitment for most employers is straightforward: you advertise, read through applications, invite the people you like in for an interview, think about it for a bit and then enter into negotiations w...

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