Archive for January, 2009

Gifted adults are different from an early age

Being different as a child

One of the personal qualities that seems to be shared by most gifted children is being different and divergent – in terms of thinking, interests, values and behavior. Many gifted adults feel “wrong” or anxious about “not fitting in” even though being different can be a strength, a positive attribute.
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Can school help in raising gifted kids? Deborah Ruf writes on parenting her son.

“I have never been a fan of learning in a classroom. Inside a laboratory or a garage, I always wanted to know more, but never inside a classroom.” – Caltech physicist Caolionn O’Connell, PhD.
That quote is from my article “Getting out of school alive.”
The standard classroom doesn’t engage the gifted
A related post on my Teen [...]