French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test (1857–1911)
He built the first working intelligence test — not to label children, but to prove they could be taught. The scale he and Théodore Simon published in 1908 became the scaffold for every IQ test that followed.
Alfred Binet was born Alfredo Binetti on 8 July 1857. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education convened a commission to settle a sharp question: should children with learning difficulties be sent to special boarding schools attached to asylums, as psychiatrist Désiré-Magloire Bourneville insisted, or educated in classes within regular schools? Binet, a member of the Société libre pour l'étude psychologique de l'enfant, believed the decision should rest on objective evidence, not medical opinion. He and Théodore Simon developed a test to measure it. A preliminary version appeared in 1905; the…
Sourced, dated quotes from Alfred Binet
I have often observed, to my regret, that a widespread prejudice exists with regard to the educability of intelligence.
This observation might be repeated with regard to all objects of the outer world which enter into relation with us.
When we attempt to understand the inmost nature of the outer world, we stand before it as before absolute darkness.
We are, for the rest, so wrapped up in sensations that none of our boldest conceptions can break through the circle.
The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.
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