The IQ is the phrenology of the 20th century. The IQ has oracular powers and we worship at its shrine. Its numbers give us the confidence that this is objective, reliable, predictive, and scientific. Tests that give us numbers dominate our life. They tyrannize us.
Students come and students go.
But one thing remains the same, the terror of the SAT, the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The IQ - SAT mentality is a metaphor for the mismeasurement of our lives in our society. We have allowed ourselves to be measured by crooked scales, by a pseudo-scientific numerology that has distorted our understanding of our children and our understanding of ourselves. It's not the measure of our children. For how I measure my child is the way in which I measure myself.