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Quotes from Les idées modernes sur les enfants — Alfred Binet

1857–1911 France

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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.

Les idées modernes sur les enfants (1909)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Binet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.