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What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

Being gifted needs courage.

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.