"It may surprise you to know that a big champion of this view was [[Alfred Binet]], **the inventor of the IQ test**. Wasn’t the IQ test meant to summarize children’s unchangeable intelligence? In fact, no. Binet, a Frenchman working in Paris in the early twentieth century, **designed this test to identify children who were not profiting from the Paris public schools**, so that new educational programs could be designed to get them back on track." ([Location 163](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01M036N60&location=163)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[emotional-intelligence]], [[intelligence-quotient]], **Source** -- [[20250429082504 - B - Mindset]]