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In ten years of graduate school, after two masters degrees and a Ph.D., there are four statements that I remember clearly, two decades later.
Two of these are most related to Developmental Psychology.
1. All the simple answers are wrong. -- Dr. Irv Balow
-- when asked by a student whether there was anything we knew for certain in education and psychology, that didn't have to be qualified with "It depends." or "Under certain conditions."
2. Children cannot walk between the raindrops. --- Dr. Marian Radke-Yarrow
-- In discussing resilience in children, that even though some children who had mentally ill or abusive parents managed to succeed in school, work and society that it was fooling ourselves to think there were no negative effects of their childhood experiences.
3. If something exists, it must exist in some quantity, and that quantity can be measured. - Sir Francis Galton
-- My specialization is psychometrics- mental measurement - and I have always had that conviction, that it is possible - and fascinating - to measure anything that exists from intelligence to how much you love your children. In some cases, we just haven't figured out how to do it well, but it is,logically, a possibility.
4. Always remember, ladies and gentlemen, that while Burroughs had all of its engineers hard at work inventing a better adding machine, Steve Wozniak was in his garage inventing the Apple Computer - Dr. Bruce Erickson
Somehow, I want to fit all of these into the new course I am writing. The first two are easy. The third I can slip in there somehow in a discussion of measurement, maybe talking about the research on home environment and intelligence.
Not sure how I am going to slip the fourth in there. Any ideas? Any suggestions are appreciated.
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