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.
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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.Robert Sternberg
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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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.
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Take, for example, some of the people at Enron, ... It should be that you are developing your leadership skills throughout your education.
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And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?
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And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
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