| Dr. William Maxwell
was born in Arkansas and grew up in Arizona, graduating valedictorian
from Phoenix's Carver High School.
He attended Howard University in Washington,
D.C.; Oregon State University; the University of California,
Berkeley; the University of Maryland; Oxford University; and
Harvard University where he earned a master's and a doctorate
in education.
Dr. Maxwell has taught at the university level
since 1954, including universities in Korea, Nigeria, Fiji,
and in the United States. He has researched and lectured on
child development and increasing human intelligence in over
fifty nations on all continents. Dr. Maxwell has been dean of schools
of education on three of those continents, including The University
of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, and California State University,
Fresno. He has published in refereed journals in Korea, Nigeria, Australia,
Fiji, France, the United Kingdom and in the U.S. His book,
Thinking: The Expanding Frontier, (1983),
published by Erlbaum, was placed on the recommended reading
list on thinking at Harvard University.
Dr. Maxwell was elected to two honor societies
at Oregon State and was among two in his class voted into
the Phi Delta Kappa Honor Society at Harvard University. His
IQ-raising game, Inventive Quotient, I.Q.,
was developed and tested with 435 Class I pupils in 17 classrooms
in Suva, Fiji, under the supervision of 34 teachers. The statistical
analyses of the 17 experimental studies were supervised by
two University of South Pacific faculty researchers.
Inventive Quotient, I.Q., was patented in Fiji and
copyrighted worldwide. With his late wife, Mary Elizabeth
Maxwell, while in Fiji, he published a book soon to be back
in print, titled 52 Ways to Raise the IQ of a Child.
Dr. Maxwell is currently Professor of Thinking at the
University of Advancing Technology (formerly the CAD Institute), Tempe, Arizona, a university specializing
in the sciences and applications of computer technology.
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