Intelligence: The Great Lie
“One of the most important books written this century.”
Prof / Dean Emeritus David Martin Ph.D Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. USA
We reason today that most people in the West believe that education is relatively fair, and gives equal opportunity to all children, after all, the social barriers of an earlier time have disappeared and children are not discriminated against according to their background. There is, however, a deeper mechanism behind this that lingers from an earlier time that does create discrimination, and does prevent all children from gaining equal opportunity in school and so in life. This mechanism lies in the cultivated belief we have today that a child is born with a quality of intelligence that can be known, and that this is directly linked to the socio-economic background of their parents.
“Intelligence: The Great Lie” explains, for the first time and in detail, why a child’s intelligence cannot be related to the intelligences witnessed in members of their family line. As it does so, it brings into question the whole concept of the Intelligence Quotient, and explains why we make a great mistake when we talk about the IQ of a person or how food effects IQ. As we have just mentioned, IQ is only an idea that intelligence can be measured. It gives no suggestion as to what intelligence is or how it forms. Yet, because of the way we have been cultivated to think, when we use the term IQ we do think of intelligence as being largely inherited.
As this book explains, for the first time, why it is never possible to know the inherited value of the intelligences of any two normally born children, it introduces a whole new view of what intelligence could be. It’s very important that we consider this, because if intelligence is not what we think it is, then the way we educate children is wrong!
This book, based on 30 years of research, offers to rewrite the whole basis of Cognitive Psychology and the framework by which society uses school to create the next citizen worker. It is an exciting adventure of discovery, opening us to one of the greatest conspiracies of our time.
What the experts say:
“Roy’s books are very important that should be read by every parent and educator in the world. They represent a real breakthrough in our understanding of what intelligence is and how it develops, and the importance of changing the ways students are both parented and educated. Roy is doing for learning the work that is as significant as was that done in the past by such figures as John Dewey. These are must-reads for both parents and educators alike.”
Prof / Dean Emeritus David Martin Ph.D Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. USA
“The most important books I have ever read about a child’s intelligence.”
Prof. Tatyana Oleinik. Pedagogical University. Ukraine.
“Roy, I would like to thank you for sharing your passion, heart, brilliance, and intellectual journey with me. I am very much enjoying your knowledgeable perspective on some very important challenges.”
Dr. Christopher John. Psychologist. USA.
“I have been fascinated with intelligence since our daughter Sara was born with Down syndrome. Roy Andersen’s books really explain how teachers can tap into each student’s intelligence, increasing their chances of success in school and society. ‘This is a powerful book, and I am looking forward to reading the entire series.”
Debra Ruh, CEO Ruh Global Communications. U.S.A.
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In 1869 Galton’s first book, aptly named “Hereditary Genius,” came into print. In its introduction he gave approval, with the general concern of his class, that social turmoil would endanger the potential achievements if not survival of their civilization.
“I propose to show in this book.”. he wrote, “that a man’s natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the whole organic world.”He further wrote, and these words lie much of a key to understand all that will follow: ..
“I shall show that social agencies of an ordinary character, whose influences are little suspected, are at this moment working towards the degradation of human nature.”
To make sure there was no misunderstanding to this, he drew on the French example where ….
“The Revolution and the guillotine made sad havoc among the progeny of her abler races.” 19
This was as much a theme to the introduction of his life’s work as it was to this book. Galton was driven by an intense desire to show that ability was to all intents and purposes inherited. He was driven by a compulsive nature to convince everyone, that civilization would only do harm to itself if it failed to recognize that the best potential for the sons of a family were to be witnessed in the work held by their ancestors. Such merit, he insisted, reflected their calibre for work responsibility and social competence.
It may not be known precisely how Galton came to link social rank with work capability and this to reflect social responsibility, all tied to a neat inherited base, but it was certainly not a new idea. Five years before “Hereditary Genius” came into print, Fustel de Coulanges had finished his classic work “The Ancient City.” This book gave a detailed explanation of how the social structures of ancient civilizations came to be, and how they worked. In this, de Coulanges related how social harmony was dependent upon a belief in the people that administrative and work responsibilities where passed through the mind and body skills of a family. It was thus a common if not traditional concept of Pagan orders, that the life of a community depended upon the survival of discrete lineages.
The idea, then, that different people need to play different roles in a society, with the necessity that they be educated in the belief that this order is heritable was not new. We may consider that it lies deep in the craft of kingship along with the idea of blue blood, and is assuredly older than the recorded writing we have.
Needless to say, it would not have been a big step for Galton, who was never a fan of religion, to take this pre-Christian idea, and in resurrecting it, fashion it to serve the needs of his time. Yet, wherever the idea came from “Hereditary Genius” did appear in the most needed of times and its author was swirled, as if by invisible forces, into public prominence to play a decisive counter-action to the Marxist ideas and growing strength of socialism that was demanding equality for all men and an end to the ruling class — an end to the civilization he cherished. ..
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Intelligence: The Great Lie explains how a pseudo science seeking to explain how the social worth of a man was said to be identified by the shape of his nose grew to create the Science of Cognitive Psychology, which uses IQ tests to define the use of people to work and society through their socio-political, cultural, ethnic and even religious background. The cause of our constant dissatisfaction with school and education is rooted in our understanding of intelligence. Yet, you will find through reading the many pages of this book that – Intelligence is not what you think it is!
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