And for quotations from experts on this topic.

"Thinking creatively is humanity's built-in capacity for unlimited improvement. The limit of human development can never be found. If we think of IQ as biologically fixed, then those thoughts (a) violate the facts and (b) have the unintended consequence of discouraging too many of those who may wish to improve themselves. I see Inventive Quotient, I.Q. as a giant step forward in helping parents look at their children through fresh lenses."
-- Preston King, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College and Emory University, Atlanta

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"It is through symbols and symbol systems that our present framework, rooted in the psychology of intelligence, can be effectively linked with the concerns of culture, including the rearing of children and their ultimate placement in niches of responsibility and competency. Symbols pave the royal route from raw intelligence to finished cultures."
-- Howard Gardner, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, in Frames of Mind, p. 300.

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"Some recent philosophers appear to have given their moral support to the deplorable verdict that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity which cannot be augmented. We must protest and act against this brutal pessimism. . . . A child's mind is like a field for which an expert farmer has advised a change in the method of cultivation, with the result that in place of desert land we now have a harvest. It is in this sense, the only one that is significant, that we say the intelligence of children may be increased."
-- Dr. Alfred Binet, the inventor of the first IQ test.

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"The goal of education is to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover."
-- Jean Piaget, the father of the new science of Child Development.

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Mankind is slowly discovering that all of us have inside of us the germ of at least one great new idea that will improve the world. This is the ancient dream of Moses and of John Calvin and all the saints and heroes of history."
-- William Maxwell, Professor of Human Development, the University of Advancing Technology, Tempe, Arizona.