In «Nurturing Genius» journalist Tom Clynes reports on the lessons of a 45 - year study of how best to educate our most
intellectually gifted youth.
Not exact matches
All of them shared a remarkable experience in their
youth: As they were being formed into mature Christian adults by Wojtyla, they helped form an
intellectually, athletically, and mystically
gifted young clergyman into one of the most dynamic priests of his generation, a pioneer in the pastoral strategy he called «accompaniment.»
Advocates of
gifted education argue that
gifted and / or talented
youth are so perceptually and
intellectually above the mean, it is appropriate to pace their lessons more aggressively, track them into honors, Advanced Placement, or International Baccalaureate courses, or otherwise provide educational enrichment.
In a project known as the Study of Mathematically Precocious
Youth, Vanderbilt psychologists David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow, and their colleagues found that, even among a sample of
intellectually gifted people, a higher level of cognitive ability in childhood forecasted great accomplishment later in life, both in school and beyond.