amusingly not a mention of benjamin bloom and his seminal work "Developing Talent in Young People". he and his team studied over 120 individuals under 40 in 6 fields and found consistent themes. this few page PDF breaks it down nicely:
in short, parents, educators, and kids have to own specific roles in this. sadly little of this is outlined in the piece. more on this in an interview with bloom:
Nice to see a comment on Bloom. The Kaplan folks mentioned in their initial lecture that they found most MCAT questions fit within that schema. So, like we do in the military, I read what the enemy wrote for each each other: I pulled his Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Most of it is very dry government-reporty sort of stuff, but the Appendix is a nice concise outline. Email me if you want a copy, or see if you can get it through interlibrary loan.
I think the article doesn't really answer to the question of the title, but is rather a bunch of example of very gifted children (in the field of music).
I'm curious about how the HN duplicate detector distinguishes cases like this. I had seen the earlier submission and was surprised that there wasn't more discussion about it.
Elsewhere in cyberspace, I have had parents of high-IQ children (as ascertained by national membership organizations) tell me that they think the submitted article is thoughtful and reasonably factually accurate. I would like to read the book on which the submitted article is based.
If you like reading about this subject and closely related subjects, it happens that I was just at my town's local Wikipedia Loves Libraries event, and in a conversation with a librarian there a bibliography about human intelligence
It would have been even more profound for each daughter to have been made a prodigy in a different specialization. I suppose the availability of instructors in three separate areas would have been a barrier though.
The first few pages of TFA seem to be more about raising a prodigy than about giving birth to one. I.e., given that your child is a prodigy, what parenting techniques are useful?
http://www.kragen.net/uploads/4/5/4/3/4543087/developing_tal...
in short, parents, educators, and kids have to own specific roles in this. sadly little of this is outlined in the piece. more on this in an interview with bloom:
http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2009/01/developing-tale...
while not everyone can raise a prodigy, a prodigy can come from anywhere.