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How to Educate Gifted Children - by Roy

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A recent study interviewed adults who had been identified as intellectually gifted when they were children. Intelligence tends to be stable across life, and it also leads to people performing better at whatever job they do, from nuclear physicist to waitress or janitor. It is not surprising that these people were generally successful in their careers. Many had gone on to earn advanced degrees such as Ph.D., M.D., J.D. Thanks for reading The Existential Contrarian! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The researchers asked these former gifted children about how they looked back at their schools. You’d think they’d be pleased and proud, since school had presumably set them on their path to success. They weren’t. They recalled school as painfully boring. (To read the study, see https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00169862251339670.) Mostly, the classes were a waste of time, and the assignments and tests were far too easy. To quote one respondent: “I remem

America may be wasting its most precious resource: its gifted children. A recent study interviewed adults who had been identified as intellectually gifted when they were children. Intelligence tends to be stable across life, and it also leads to people performing better at whatever job they do, from nuclear physicist to waitress or janitor. It is not surprising that these people were generally successful in their careers. Many had gone on to earn advanced degrees such as Ph.D., M.D., J.D. The researchers asked these former gifted children about how they looked back at their schools. You’d…

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