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Your intuition may be wrong. I know plenty of 80's gifted kids who are burnt out, unemployed, or just coasting through life.
by icedchai 3y ago
Your intuition may be wrong. I know plenty of 80's gifted kids who are burnt out, unemployed, or just coasting through life.
- fsckboy 3y agothat doesn't refute that the progress that we've made has come from gifted kids. Not all the gifted salmon make it to swim all the way back up the stream.
- woleium 3y agobeing gifted is just the start. next you need to get inspired.
- hgomersall 3y agoI'm minded to think that most education should be focused on the inspiration part. Give the kids intrinsic motivation and the tools to learn.
- giardini 3y agoI'd rather be a member of a group of uninspired smart people than of a group of inspired dummies. - (signed)Tired of watching "inspired dummies" waste their time, other persons' time and their inherited fortunes.
- woleium 3y agoindeed, you need to be gifted first
- lelanthran 3y agoIsn't that then wasted talent? AIUI, upthread comments were about putting more resources into the gifted children precisely because we don't want to waste their talent.