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Alfred Binet
b. 7-11-1857; Nice, France
d. 10-18-1911
Afred Binet was the inventor of the first usable intelligence test, known today as IQ (intelligence quotient).
• Animal Magnetism
Alfred Binet quotes ~
• “Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.”
• “Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis and we leave unanswered the question of whether this retardation is curable, or even improveable. We shall limit ourselves to ascertaining the truth in regard to his present mental state.”
• “Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.”
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Saint Hildegard von Bingen
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179
Saint Hildegard von Bingen should be considered a “polymath” (a person with varied knowledge and learning).
She was elected a magistra (a female teacher) in 1136 and went on to be recognized as an “abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary, and composer”.
Hildegard von Bingen quotes ~
• “We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a HOME. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”
• “The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured, it must not be destroyed.”
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• Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
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Elizabeth Bishop
b. 2-8-1911; Worcester, MA
d. 10-6-1979; Boston
Elizabeth Bishop, poet and teacher, was Poet Laureate of the United States (1949-50). She also won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Poems - North and South, the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.
Elizabeth Bishop quotes ~
• “What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?”
• “The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”
• “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’.”
• “Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?”
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• The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
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