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Lecturer encourages educators to challenge students in the classroom

Educators can mold and enhance student intelligence as it develops over time by presenting challenging and difficult material, a British professor said last night. Educators can mold and enhance student intelligence as it develops over time by presenting challenging and difficult material, a British professor said last night.

Phillip Adey, emeritus professor of science, cognition and education at King’s College London, spoke about the nature of intelligence in a lecture titled “Intelligence: Constraint or Opportunity?”

In his studies, Adey has attempted to discover how modifiable — or plastic — intelligence is, he said.

“Adequate intelligence stimulation early on has very broad effects,” Adey said.

Contributed by Sean Breslin

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