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.
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Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.
There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.