Posted on 03/20/2014 8:33:23 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
In a recent paper, Lubinski and his colleagues caught up with one cohort of 320 people now in their late 30s. At 12, their SAT math or verbal scores had placed them among the top one-100th of 1 percent. Today, many are CEOs, professors at top research universities, transplant surgeons, and successful novelists.
That outcome sounds like exactly what you’d imagine should happen: Top young people grow into high-achieving adults. In the education world, the study has provided important new evidence that it really is possible to identify the kids who are likely to become exceptional achievers in the future, something previous research has not always found to be the case. But for that reason, perhaps surprisingly, it has also triggered a new round of worry.
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This is not new, as much as most folks today want to believe all the worlds problems are the result of the last election.
The smartest kids, without social skills that match their intellectual capacity, have been ignored, made fun of or beat up since the beginning of time.
Most survive, some fail, but a significant number cause all kinds of trouble :)
The only reason this country wants the smart and intelligent is so that way they will be there to carry the lazy leeching carcasses that oddly get all the breaks in this nation. I do think that this is what will likely happen since you can only send the message that someone is unwanted until they walk away, leaving this country bereft of any chance of advancing.
The US will lose everything and I am certain that in the end, no one will care, least of all the formerly rejected.
Yes, it’s always about social skills in this increasingly sorry excuse of a country.
Agreed, on all points.
I would like to point out that China has no qualms about utilizing her intellectual resources. Given the focus of some Chinese genetic research into neurological development, and given America’s propensity to ignore the same, I have some serious misgivings about the coming century.
In the Fifties, the Chinese were educating women and moving them into the arts, sciences, anywhere they had talent. In the US women were expected to marry and have kids whether they really wanted it or not.
I can only think that the intelligent are going to go to the Asian countries and end up contributing heavily while the rest of Eastern Europe works to recruit them as well. Russia will work hard at getting our best and as usual, our country will ignore the entire development and then wonder why Russia and China are now jointly dictating world policy, with the US obeying.
Number! categorically that is. The word is “many”.
Many gifted are successful, so the lesson is clear, the gifted succeed.
This is the faulty syllogism.
“I have gifted daughters, and I see the same mistakes now. The state assures free tuition for the poor, for illegals, but not the academically talented. This is a crime to humanity.”
Agreed, it is indeed a crime against humanity. It hurts me to think that what could be tomorrow’s visionaries and pioneers are being so ill-served by our nation.
Gifted kids have been neglected, ignored and discriminated against by our educational system ever since the hey-day of John Dewey, who realized he could only achieve his dream of a socialist America with a dumbed-down populace who couldn’t read.
‘gifted’ children may or may not have higher IQs. What they definitely have is a determination (for whatever reason) to work hard and achieve what their class mates cannot or will not. This is true for adults who are hard working driven people. the truth is they will succeed inspire of their surroundings not because of them.
Unfortunately, the lefties and commies want you to think that the government can make all of this equal
My guess is you are referring to the word “many” but not all
Success also hits many people all across the spectrum
I taught myself how to read when I was four. Not saying I was “gifted”, but I was read to a lot, and decided to learn how to read on my own.
I was sent to first grade, kicking and screaming, at age 6. Because I already knew how to read, the teacher didn’t know what to do with me, so I spent the entire year bored out of my mind and viewed school as a combination torture chamber and penitentiary. She’d hand out reading books every couple months, I’d sit there and read it in a few minutes, and that was it.
It still gives me the major creeps to even remember that. I hated every day of my entire school career. They did let me skip 2nd grade but that didn’t help. I felt liberated the day I got kicked out in 11th grade.
Im just now seeing your answer and I was right.....
Some brilliantly gifted people also turn out not so good some times
I refer you to Atlas Shrugged...
In China they were also forcing women to have abortions and limiting them to one child.
In the US for the last couple of decades, women have been force fed the feminist crap that “a woman needs a husband like a fish needs a bicycle” and encouraged - nay, pressured - to forego marriage and childbearing (if at all) until the 30s, and by that time they’ve gone through so many “relationships” or just plain “hooking up” that they can’t even find a husband.
Your pleasant sound fantasy is merely a fantasy.
So your conclusion appears to be that if women are “encouraged” to make it in the professions instead of marrying and raising a family, the world will be a better place. You are ignoring that this is precisely what women in the US have been taught for two generations. And the result is not pretty.
Are you new here, or a retread? Just wondering
can; by omitting it they let you supply/infer 'will'.
I just think we’re making a huge mistake and I’m not a feminist. I don’t hate men. This isn’t about feminism, but building and maintaining a successful country. We’re losing our finest minds because the gifted are not socially adept and for some reason, being socially adept is a requirement for success.
Yes they have.
Now we’re feeling the effects, but we won’t feel the reality of it until we realize that Russia and China will be telling us what to do from here on out.
It’s a matter of choice really.
I just read some of your other comments and realize I was way too harsh...and I apologize. I think we agree much more than we disagree.
Not wanting to give any particulars, I can only say in consideration of my own experience, let's not sell ourselves short!
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