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When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

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Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

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We need to develop people rather than process them.

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Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and wh…

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The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

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I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

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Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

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Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an in…

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Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

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