aptitudes

We believe that knowledge of your aptitudes is the single most important factor in selecting your career.

Discover What You’re Best At Linda Gale 1998

It may be said that in him the exercise of the will is continuous; nay, that the factor which really acts and persists among his aptitudes is the will, which is built up on the internal fundamental fact of a prolonged attention.

Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911

It thus presents the subject to the pupil when his aptitudes are the most rapidly developing and when he is forming life habits.

Wood Folk at School William Joseph Long 1909

Among the most vivid are the so-called "aptitudes" supposedly revealed by tests, which permit us to rank people with mathematical precision.

Inequality for Everyone? An Exchange Birkner, Michael 1980

But apart from selection as between relatively stable types of character and habits of mind, there is no doubt simultaneously going on a process of selective adaptation of habits of thought within the general range of aptitudes which is characteristic of the dominant ethnic type or types.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

But apart from selection as between relatively stable types of character and habits of mind, there is no doubt simultaneously going on a process of selective adaptation of habits of thought within the general range of aptitudes which is characteristic of the dominant ethnic type or types.

Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893

Every child is different, every child has his own interests, his own academic inclinations and aptitudes and our aim should be to provide him with a good education that suits him, one which enables him to achieve his potential and build on his strengths and talents.

What other countries are really doing in education Valerie Strauss 2010

Some of these skills are learned in school (finance), some are innate aptitudes (people skills), some are learned pattern recognition skills (shadowing experienced partners, hard won success and failures of their own), and some are learned by having operating experience.

Steve Blank: Why VCs Should Be Startup CEOs Steve Blank 2011

Some of these skills are learned in school (finance), some are innate aptitudes (people skills), some are learned pattern recognition skills (shadowing experienced partners, hard won success and failures of their own), and some are learned by having operating experience.

Steve Blank: Why VCs Should Be Startup CEOs Steve Blank 2011

This is, of course, more evidence for Larry Summers being correct about math aptitudes.

The Forgotten Men, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009