Jed wrote,
but the ideas and inventions came from the North. That is a typical pattern
in history. Good ideas come from the periphery, and from cold, challenging,
inconvenient places.
Howdy Jed,
There are an increasing number of highly gifted children being recruited by
certain private super schools in the USA. One such school is St.Johns in
Houston Texas. This super school, grades thru 12 has some 600 gifted youth
with IQ's that are difficult to measure.The school is just one of many that
are well endowed and have all the resources and faculty for working one on
one with these youth. The students come from a cross section of cultures and
ethnic backgrounds. To sit in the 4th grade classroom on grandparents day is
an experience to observe how advanced this environment is compared to my
public school days.
Granted that history demonstrates and confirms your statements regarding
the north but these super schools are beginning so skew academia as it was
known. The challenge is become how the universities can adjust to meet the
challenges presented by these students.
Richard
