Randi Weingarten Quotes

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

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.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

For the educational establishment... test scores are treated as indications of the extent to which the required ground covering has been done. ...as educationally significant. However, while they may be prognostic of a child's ability to get through school... they do not provide us with an appraisal of the child's progress in the long process of becoming a generally educated human being -- the advance made toward a more skillful, thoughtful, and cultivated mind.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

I'm pretty smart.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.