"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid". Great quote often attributed Einstein (though he is probably not the architect behind it).
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MyBrother was dyslexic before it was known, reading&math so difficult he was thought to be slow. My son had speech delay & altho he could read a newspaper@age3, as he didn't speak, was perceived as dumb. We must remove the veils to find truths before assigning judgment. Except rumpus truly is an ass
💜 poster! Try to live it everyday, except when i have to look at data from testing & stuff to get ready for state testing. BC all test results decide if my teaching was sufficient to earn my $. Even though most of my days are spent working w/children whose backgrounds need more love than learning.
People have always been incredulous when I tell them that I hate math, have no interest in it (except for prime numbers and the Fibonacci sequence, & oh yeah, divine geometry) and am unapologetically bad at it. I'm good at a lot of other things. What's the problem?
Thankfully life is more of a diverse ecosystem, with a forest by a prairie including a river leading to an ocean. In other words, everyone should, with luck, find a pursuit they are skilled at. https://opened.cuny.edu/courseware/lesson/48/student/?section=3
Actually beware: this is one of the popular fallacies that pop up every now and then - Einstein never said that. The concept is thought provoking though...
Then there are the polymaths -- those that make contributions in multiple fields.
Alan Turing (mathematician) -- CompSci, biology
Jacob Bronowski -- physicist turned biologist
Noam Chomsky (linguist/philosopher) -- formal language theory in CompSci
There isn't "one way" to calculate intelligence
Yes, there are people who lack it
But that doesn't mean they're unintelligent or uncapable of learning
And the saying don't judge a fish by its ability to climb
Is correct but isn't complete
Every animal(humen) should have more than one test
Its not about fairness its about clasification, thats what schools have always been about, you clasify people into diferent roles in society, so that you can cover all the niches. if you don't have an exploitable lower class current economic sistem would collapse
I totally agree! Each person is a treasure. I think the Einstein confusion comes from this quote. He explained to struggling students how long he worked to solve some problems. His humbleness always moved me & my students related to his story.
I think this might be the origin of the quote. George Reavis In 1940 wrote “The Animal School”. This is an adaptation to the fable. My HS students always appreciated it. There are many adaptations to the original.
The problem with this statement is that humans are one only species! There's no excuse. Jobs that can feed you require specific tasks. If you can't do them, you can't get the jobs. If you can't learn math, you can't be an engineer. If you can't learn biology, you can't be an MD. It's that simple!
The same animal but completely different abilities. A child who is not an English speaker should not be forced to take a test only in English and have it count against them.
Noone would be applying for a job they can't do. You give an example of climbing a tree. Only the 'animals' that can climb a tree would be applying. The best climber among 'them' is who you would hire. Nothing wrong with this selection process. Correct me if I'm wrong.
physicist Amos Dolbear published "An Educational Allegory," a story about animals being unfairly judged on tasks outside their natural abilities, like a fish being assessed on its ability to climb.
Over time it was paraphrased and wrongly attributed to Einstein.
I find this quote flawed. Unlike different species, people share core capabilities, and tests measure specific skills. That’s why there’s no single test in life but many—each offering a chance to discover and grow our unique strengths.
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>no... There is another...
Alan Turing (mathematician) -- CompSci, biology
Jacob Bronowski -- physicist turned biologist
Noam Chomsky (linguist/philosopher) -- formal language theory in CompSci
Yes, there are people who lack it
But that doesn't mean they're unintelligent or uncapable of learning
And the saying don't judge a fish by its ability to climb
Is correct but isn't complete
Every animal(humen) should have more than one test
https://iqinternational.org/insights/are-iq-tests-racist
Over time it was paraphrased and wrongly attributed to Einstein.