Alexander W. Astin has something to say — a lot to say, really — about smartness. He knows some people won’t want to hear it, especially if they happen to teach college students for a living.

So you think you’re so smart? Somewhere in one of his novels, David Lodge gave us the game of Humiliation. You know, the one where people who are supposed to have read everything (yes, I’m talking ...

Credit: http://www.tumotech.com/. All rights reserved. I used to see smartness as tyrannical. This was over a decade ago, when I was toiling away in a cold-calling ...

Performance-enhancing drugs to help students burn the midnight oil, learn faster or have better recall at exam time could pose a major dilemma for colleges in the future, according to a paper ...

Competitiveness starts locally, and progressive Middle Eastern metropolises show how urban innovation can inspire stronger ...

A provocative new book by Chris Hayes blames the failure of elites for our woes. But solving the problem is harder than diagnosing it. In his telling, that's one example of the "Cult of Smartness" ...

Third World Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 5, The Future of Humanitarian Mine Action (Oct., 2003), pp. 873-887 (15 pages) Mine-risk education programmes will fall short of their intended impact for as long ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. So if you’re a run of the mill mobile platform, even if it's been going for a few ...