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Professor of Psychiatry Robert Coles '50, Senior Research Associate in Education Howard E. Gardner '65 and Associate Professor of Education Carol Gilligan all agreed that IQ tests are too one-dimensional to test contemporary society...
...tests causes us to focus primarily on two types of learning, linguistic and mathematical skills," Gardner warned, the narrow focus results in an "individually centered curriculum," tailor-made for IQ tests...
...bias is toward what he called "westist: the placing of certain values on a pedestal" and "testist: if it can't be tested, then forget it," Gardner said...
Pulitzer prize winner Coles agreed with Gardner on the narrowness of IQ tests. "There is more intelligence than just numbers and letters. There is parental, moral and ethical intelligence as well," he said. A lot of ordinary people survive without a lot of intelligence, he said. "It just depends on how we use the intelligence...
Prince Charles will participate in theconvocation with David P. Gardner, president ofthe University of California system, Paul E. Gray,president of MIT, Benno C. Schmidt Jr., presidentof Yale University, and the Rt. Hon. Lord Adrian,vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge,England, who are slotted to give their greetingsto Harvard...