Education as the cultivation of intelligence

Martinez (Univ. of California at Irvine) provides a meaningful discussion of the importance of experience in the development of intelligence in a technology-dominated world. He begins by linking intelligence, the economy, economic reward, social problems, and the corresponding need to reconceptualize education to include intelligence development. The second section explores the history of intelligence theories beginning with psychometrics and ending with learnable intelligence models. The next part presents research that supports intelligence development through a broad range of experiences including education. The final section presents ten strategies for cultivating intelligence in the school, home, workplace, and nation. Martinez concludes that intelligence is malleable through experience and must become a product of education to enhance wisdom, creativity, equity, and productivity. Just as Richard J. Herrnstein'sThe Bell Curve (CH, May'95) had an impact on the hereditarian position of intelligence, conversely Education as the Cultivation of Intelligence has the potential to have an equal influence on the development of intelligence as a liberator. This volume is an exceptional resource for persons interested in the development of intelligence and as a supplemental text for undergraduate or graduate students. J. A. Beckwith; Northeastern Illinois University