When their equals
read their first books little Einsteins learn nuclear physics, create
innovatory applications and work on
their first business. Have you ever heard about prodigies?
What were you
doing when you were 5 years old? I would like to present to you a few people
who prodigies.
At first Tanishq
Abraham.
Now, he is
13-years old and he is an American River College’s graduate. Tanishq has
started Collage when he was 8 years old. What were his peers doing when he
started college? I think that they played and they learnt to read and do simple
math. Tanishq from time to time gives a lecture on astronomy and paleontology. His
parents are smart but not genius people. His father is a programmer and his
mother is a vet. Parents had known that their son is amazing, because when he
was 2 years old he could to count to 100. It isn’t typical. When he was
4 years old he was accepted for MENSA membership, he received 148 points in the
IQ test. Of course his life is not easy. People still test him to check his
cuteness so his life is not pink. What are
his plan? He wants to be a doctor, astronomer, discoverer and the president of
United States of America.
For a change, her
mother is a housewife and her father is an IT specialist. They are intelligent
but no exceptionally intelligent people. The modest girl intends to be a vet in
the future. Just now the best university offered her a grant. Of course she is also a member of MENSA.
The last example
of the exceptionally intelligent children is Oscar Wringley. He is the boy who joined
MENSA as a one of the youngest. He was 2 years and 5 months old. He has
160 IQ. Oscar talks about many interesting things every day, for example
reproductive cycle of penguins ;) It isn’t a typical topic to study for a two,
four or even six year old child.
Everything is fine,
but what will they do in the future? Will they be happy and accepted by the society?
What do you think about it?
If you like this
topic you can read more about genius children at http://www.thebestschools.org/blog/2013/07/16/15-smartest-preteens-world/
Sources:
“Sukces” nr 6/272
czerwiec 2013, str. 40-42
Comments
In general a lot depends on parents, how much they care about the education of theirs children and how much time that spent to teach them. If parents would not start to teach children to count and speak would children do it? Of course the other thing is predisposition and those kids definitely have it. But they will have really hard life, because people don't like other people who are smarter than they are. And how they are suppose to find friends? In school were everyone else is 10 years older?
Those children they are going to have a great future, But to be honest all the the new generation are smarter than before, Maybe the main impact
is the technology and how fast human able to gather information about any thing everywhere anytime nowadays.
and for sure also the Parents they play very important rules on the child life.
What i was doing when i was 5 years old ? hmm .. I don't even remember but for sure not smart as Tanishq Abraham.
As a kid, I've always been smart and I had excellent grades. I was nothing like the kids you wrote about, but nonetheless I had troubles with finding good friends. I think that in those children's case it may be far, far more difficult.
Of course I agree with you that a lot depends on parents, but I think that it is not everything.
Yep, I think the genius life is very hard in the social aspect.
You're totally right we should try to keep the child's life as balanced as possible.
I think it isn’t easy for them. They are different from their peers. Children don’t like diversity. They feel bad with it. Social life, that mentioned other, is very important for people of all ages. Nobody likes to feel lonely. But on the other hand they are amazing kids. I'm shocked that children can be smarter than adults.
For sure it is hard for them. They should give safety, education and childhood when their child needs it. It must be a huge problem: give child normal life or give child a chance to be a really smart man - chance a great evolution its career . The second way seems to be better for humanity, but the first option seems to be better for a child.
Also, people like jumping to conclusions. Whenever media cover the topic of exceptionally intelligent children they try to suggest that those will be the next biggest names in science. That those will be the people working on the next biggesst discoveries/inventions. That obviously could be the case for some of them, but not necessarily. Einstein isn't famous because he learned sth that someone else researched/discovered ;)
All of this really matters, and they have better and better way of education, their parents are younger and they and more ‘modern’ they know how present time looks like and what people need to know and achieve to be successful at life.
At the same time this gift can be a menace. Often the above average people are lonely and treat as weirdo. When i read about this speciall kids iam delighted and worried at the same time. I wish them a successful but first of all happy life.
To resume I ll repeat after Stuart Mill "better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied"