The Vanishing Genius
Lewis Terman and the Stanford Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9885828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gretchen Kreuter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6 |
| Publication date | 1962-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Education Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2680 • E-ISSN: 1748-5959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/367332 |
| OpenAlex | W2313735068 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The idea of genius has intrigued and baffled generations of thinkers interested in the problems of human excellence, leadership, and creativity. Until the early twentieth century, it was generally assumed that the man of genius, whatever his mode of expression, was qualitatively different from the rest of humanity -that he possessed some mysterious, inborn element that made his achievements possible. Because of the supposed mystery surrounding the origin and nature of genius, there grew up over the years a veritable mythology linking the man of genius with phenomena ranging from Deity to insanity
Art · Art history · Genius · Sociology · Management Theory and Practice · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |