I always got Bs & Cs in school, so I thought I was average, until I was told that I was the smartest kid in the class, but I would always be looking through microscopes and telescopes at home just out of curiosity. Do grades really have much to do with intelligence?
I reject the idea communicated in the title of the video, that giftedness is not about being special, only about having special needs. If there is no “specialness” in being gifted, then there isn’t any actual gift. “Special needs” implies a disability. I guess by that line of reasoning somebody crippled by polio would be profoundly gifted. The mental judo involved in turning the concept of giftedness on its head is only an attempt to appease delicate sensibilities around the existence of sometimes striking differences between human beings in the quality of general intelligence.
I always got Bs & Cs in school, so I thought I was average, until I was told that I was the smartest kid in the class, but I would always be looking through microscopes and telescopes at home just out of curiosity. Do grades really have much to do with intelligence?
Hi, I really feel I need to speak with you, is that anyway possibly?
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I reject the idea communicated in the title of the video, that giftedness is not about being special, only about having special needs. If there is no “specialness” in being gifted, then there isn’t any actual gift. “Special needs” implies a disability. I guess by that line of reasoning somebody crippled by polio would be profoundly gifted. The mental judo involved in turning the concept of giftedness on its head is only an attempt to appease delicate sensibilities around the existence of sometimes striking differences between human beings in the quality of general intelligence.
Sometimes high IQ is interpreted as gifted. Gifted is different than high IQ, but you need to have an above average IQ to be gifted.