![]() In those early years when my academic performance was low, I began to develop study skills and academic grit because I lacked intellectual confidence. ![]() But even those who see our more increased possibilities far too often miss our divine potential as children of God. I believe a constrained view of human potential is a mismeasurement of man. I am so glad my lifelong potential was not fixed in grade school. Other scholars argue that our potential is expansive, coachable, and can increase over time. Some scholars claim student capacity is capped, based solely on inherited intelligence, and inflexible over time. Herrnstein and Charles Murray on human intelligence and class structure, summarized in The Bell Curve (1994). While there is a broader body of research on this subject, Gould’s analysis is often framed as a counterpoint to research by Richard J. ![]() ![]() The title of the talk and the reference to the literature on human potential draws research by Stephen Jay Gould, titled The Mismeasure of Man (1996). ![]()
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