Eugene S. Wilson Quotes

Eugene S. "Bill" Wilson was Dean of Admission at Amherst College and president of the Association of College Admissions Counselors. In 1990 a building at Amherst College was named the Eugene S. Wilson Admission Center in his honor. Wikipedia  

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Famous Eugene S. Wilson Quotes

“Intelligence test scores and marks in school are not always true indicators of the worth of a student, nor even the power of his intellect.”

Jack R, Maguire, "Editorial: The Case for the C-Average Student", The Alcalde, September 1961, p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=qdIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5
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“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The Quest Quotient has always interested me more than the Intelligence Quotient.”

Reader's Digest, April 1968; and in Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors (1996), ISBN 1881052923, p. 171 http://books.google.com/books?id=lQGfdSy6qCYC&pg=PA171
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“Educators everywhere must seek new ways to promote the idea that learning is something a student does with books and materials, and a teacher who cares; that learning can happen in college and outside; and that a student's intellectual growth depends far less on geography (which college) than on what advantage he takes of the opportunities which surround him wherever he is.”

"What's Going On in Schools and Colleges", Kiplinger's Personal Finance, April 1961, p. 31 http://books.google.com/books?id=fwMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31
A portion of this is quoted earlier in "Education: Little Known" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895088,00.html, Time, 5 December 1960
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