Contemporary Viewpoints on Human Intellect and Learning

About the Book

"Contemporary Viewpoints on Human Intellect and Learning was written to provide the reader with a historical overview of how the intelligence quotient came about and to provide the reader many of the historical contributions from many noted psychoanalysts such as Edward L. Thorndike, Sigmund Freud, Clark L. Hull, Charles Spearman, Jean William Fritz Piaget, Louis Leon Thurstone, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Raymond B. Cattell, David “Wex” Wechsler, Robert J. Sternberg, Earl C. Butterfi eld, Howard Gardner, Albert Bandura, J. P. Guilford, and Daniel Goleman—just to name a few. The historical overview was done to provide the reader with some thoughts about what real human intelligence is, and the author has added a small twist to this idea of intelligence, and that is the natural law of righteousness. The point is that when other human beings use their intelligence to gain control, dominate, and harass their fellow men, they are not intelligent at all but are just as low as a common thief in the author’s estimation. However, this book is not a prescription; it is a summary of awareness by the author who spent over thirty-four years in academia. The author wants you, the reader, to know that writing this book has been deeply emotional and often a rewarding experience. It has been enlightening in an odd sort of a way; nothing the author has had to face before has been so thrilling. But it has opened the author’s eyes and brought him a sense of relief to know that real human intelligence is still open for discussion in association with the natural law of righteousness, a feeling the author can only describe as ecstatic, to make a better world for all mankind. Here it is, folks, and now secure this labor of love and learn what is meant by the natural law of righteousness and why it is so important in conjunction with your own intelligence and the intelligence of others."

About the Author

Dr. Gaines B. Jackson has accumulated over twenty years of practical and academic experiences in mathematics and the physical sciences. He received a B. S. in Analytical Chemistry from West Texas State University, after which he worked for Sinclair Oil and Gas Company. In 1972, he received his master’s of science degree in Environmental Science from the University of Texas at Houston. Until 1977, he worked for the Oklahoma Department of Health as a wastewater research chemist. In 1983, he received a Dr. of Public Health in Environmental Health with an extensive publication on the reuse of primary treated municipal wastewater using the land application technique called the “Spray Run-off Method”. He has published in numerous national journals and invented the “Water Utility Converter” and “The Jackson’s Water Wheel”, both very practical slide charts that actually work. He has also authored “Applied Water and Spentwater Chemistry—A Laboratory Manual”, “Applied Nomography Training for the Water Utility Operator”, and coauthored with Hellen Sue Way, “Transitional Science”. He is always available for lectures through the Rose State College Retired Professor’s Speaker’s Bureau in Midwest City, Oklahoma.