Robert Sternberg
Robert Sternberg
Robert Sternbergis an American psychologist and psychometrician. He is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, Sternberg was president of the University of Wyoming. He has been Provost and Professor at Oklahoma State University, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals, including American Psychologist. He was the past President for the American Psychological Association...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 December 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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A principal in Oregon was having problems with some girls in the school. The girls had just started to wear lipstick and were pressing their lips against the mirror. After a few weeks, when the culprits were caught, the principal wanted to teach them a lesson, so the custodian showed them what he had to do to clean the lipstick. He dipped the sponge into the toilet and proceeded to wipe the mirror. Needless to say, the girls never pressed their lips against that mirror again.
Leadership and civic engagement are an important part of the Tufts education, ... People often get themselves into power who are very bright, but not necessarily wise, and maybe even foolish.
Research has shown that IQ type tests account for about 10% of the variation in how successful people are in various aspects of their adult lives.
Our goal is to get better students and send a message that these things really matter. The great students will get in, anyway. This is about the middle.
develop leaders of the next generation, and not necessarily CEOs and presidents.
If Tufts doesn't work out, my safety is to go back to Yale, where I used to teach.
This is a really exciting team to be part of.
The first is, what our studies show is that if kids learn creatively and practically, they learn better, even if the tests are for memory.
capitalize on their strengths, but also to correct and compensate for their weaknesses.
Teachers can't afford not to be flexible. The world is changing quickly. Don't just teach to those who think and learn analytically.
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.