3 Quotes & Sayings By Herbert A Wise

Herbert A. Wise is a world-renowned expert in the education of gifted children and students with learning disabilities. He has been a consultant to many states and nations on legislation pertaining to gifted children, and serves as a member of the National Gifted Education Research Center at the University of Iowa. An internationally known speaker, he has lectured for over thirty-five years at universities, conferences, and workshops on the application of research findings in both giftedness and learning disabilities.

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The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone. But what about the supernatural stories? Can we, the children of a scientific age, give any credence to these medleys of devils, ghosts, and other psychical invasions? There is only one answer: we can and do. We are dealing with stories, not with scientific dissertations. And if, as stories, they have the ring of truth, we'll believe them, as stories, implicitly.(" Introduction"). Herbert A. Wise
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His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally suited to the indefinite and suggestive presentation of a ghost story.(introduction to "Sir Edmund Orme" by Henry James) Herbert A. Wise