The Prodigy Puzzle
Ann Hulbert,
New York Times,
Nov 24, 2005
This is an interesting article, but I'm not sure quite what to make of it. Given that we can identify child geniuses (and it's not clear than we can), what then? Do we nurture and foster them? A look at actual geniuses shows that many have had to overcome barriers. Do we normalize their achievement so they feel less like outcasts? Again, it seems that geniuses have a high tolerance for solitary (and even anti-social?) environments. But can we say, with the author, "the real geniuses aren't necessarily being denied... They are biding their time" and will emerge? I wouldn't. How many geniuses, I would ask, are broken in the forge? Maybe you can't make geniuses, but it seems to me, you can certainly break them.
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