But heres the thing: Talent isnt a number. We would never presume to identify the great novelists of the future by counting the number of vocabulary words they knew at age 10. To think we can do the same for math and science—as if proving the Riemann hypothesis were something like getting 100,000 on the math SAT—is to adopt a depressingly impoverished view of science and its demands on its practitioners. The cult of genius tends to undervalue hard work and the productive persistence that psychologists nowadays like to call grit—not to mention creativity, perspective and taste, without which all those other virtues may be wasted on pointless projects. m.us.wsj/articles/the-wrong-way-to-treat-child-geniuses-1401484790?mobile=y
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 14:20:05 +0000
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