Essay The earlier system of education focused on academic excellence and competition. The results in written assessments determined the future of the students. One obtained the career of his choice depending on the scores obtained in various exams. The system engendered a lot of frustration among many students whose career aspirations were snuffed out by the rat race. Quite many lives ended even before they began. Suicides were not uncommon even in institutions of higher learning. Educators and other guardians of the society were alarmed. They came to the conclusion that a change in the system was called for. Coupled with the gloom of frustration and suicides was the awareness that arose in psychology that IQ (intelligence quotient) was not necessarily the measure of a person’s intelligence. Psychologists as well as educationists came up with theories that pushed abstract intelligence out of the limelight. Robert Sternberg (1949- )posited the triarchic theory of
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