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Cyril Burt Quotes

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

Cyril Burt
Ignorance, Ignorant, Poor
Cyril Burt (1922). “Mental And Scholastic Test”

Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.

Cyril Burt
Country, America, Cynical

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