aptitude assessment Quotes

I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.

I can contribute to the field of music, I would not have been able to contribute to the field of engineering.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.

I think this is so important - what's not done well at education at every level - is helping kids find, as I discovered for myself, what I was good at. I was very lucky to find out that at an early age, which set my direction in life.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.