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"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 they're getting the business."

Robert Sternberg on Graduation

More quotes about Graduation

  • "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

    John F. Kennedy on Graduation

  • "God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

    Elbert Hubbard on Graduation

  • "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."

    Robert Orben on Graduation

  • "Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

    Erma Bombeck on Graduation

  • "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

    T. S. Eliot on Graduation

More quotes by Robert Sternberg

  • "Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ."

  • "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."

  • "To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them."

  • "If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left."

  • "In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn."

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