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How Do You Raise a Prodigy?
- 001sky 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722667 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722667
- tokenadult 14y agoI'm curious about how the HN duplicate detector distinguishes cases like this. I had seen the earlier submission and was surprised that there wasn't more discussion about it. Elsewhere in cyberspace, I have had parents of high-IQ children (as ascertained by national membership organizations) tell me that they think the submitted article is thoughtful and reasonably factually accurate. I would like to read the book on which the submitted article is based. If you like reading about this subject and closely related subjects, it happens that I was just at my town's local Wikipedia Loves Libraries event, and in a conversation with a librarian there a bibliography about human intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/IntelligenceCitations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige... was viewed by the librarian and me. That's a good source for more current reading about bringing up gifted children and closely related topics.
- dschiptsov 14y agoGreat variety (and quality) of the sensory input and stimuli from the very first breath?
- cma 14y agoFreeman Dyson on Norbert Weiner (intentionally raised as a prodigy): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/jul/14/the-tragic-tale-of-a-genius/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/jul/14/the-tra...
- Centigonal 14y agoThis appears paywalled -- Is the full article available anywhere?
- cma 14y agohttp://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Rebel-York-Review-Collections/dp/1590172167 http://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Rebel-York-Review-Collection...
- benihana 14y agoNot just that, it stopped it at the most awkward place in the story: >He made his reputation as a pure mathematician by inventing concepts such as the “Wiener measure” that …
- d23 14y agoI assumed this was where he lost his status as prodigy.
- david_b 14y agoHere you go: http://web.archive.org/web/20050703004351/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18112 http://web.archive.org/web/20050703004351/http://www.nybooks...
- S4M 14y agoadvice on education, by Terrence Tao who is himself a prodigy mathematician: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/advice-on-gifted-education/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/advice-on-gifted... I think the article doesn't really answer to the question of the title, but is rather a bunch of example of very gifted children (in the field of music).
- hornbaker 14y agoWin (or lose, depending on your perspective) the genetic lottery.
- pcl 14y agoThe first few pages of TFA seem to be more about raising a prodigy than about giving birth to one. I.e., given that your child is a prodigy, what parenting techniques are useful?
- jnazario 14y agoamusingly not a mention of benjamin bloom and his seminal work "Developing Talent in Young People". he and his team studied over 120 individuals under 40 in 6 fields and found consistent themes. this few page PDF breaks it down nicely: http://www.kragen.net/uploads/4/5/4/3/4543087/developing_talent_in_young_people_-_book_review.pdf http://www.kragen.net/uploads/4/5/4/3/4543087/developing_tal... in short, parents, educators, and kids have to own specific roles in this. sadly little of this is outlined in the piece. more on this in an interview with bloom: http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2009/01/developing-talent-in-young-people.html http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2009/01/developing-tale... while not everyone can raise a prodigy, a prodigy can come from anywhere.
- batgaijin 14y agoyes but you don't interlude with random personal quotes so I feel attachment to the subject enough to follow it to b5 than from b6-b9
- niels_olson 14y agoNice to see a comment on Bloom. The Kaplan folks mentioned in their initial lecture that they found most MCAT questions fit within that schema. So, like we do in the military, I read what the enemy wrote for each each other: I pulled his Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Most of it is very dry government-reporty sort of stuff, but the Appendix is a nice concise outline. Email me if you want a copy, or see if you can get it through interlibrary loan.
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- gnosis 14y agoAnother case in point: the Polgar sisters[1][2][3], raised by their father[4] to prove the point that "geniuses are made, not born". [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Polgar [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Polgar [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r [4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
- ShabbyDoo 14y agoIt would have been even more profound for each daughter to have been made a prodigy in a different specialization. I suppose the availability of instructors in three separate areas would have been a barrier though.
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