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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Student preparedness (you know...)
Summary: geniuses can get along by themselves?  arrrgh!
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Date: 19 Dec 88 16:48:17 GMT
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I'm sorry, but I can't agree.  By that reasoning, the master flute class that
I once saw Jean-Pierre Rampal teach should have had me on stage--I can't play
the flute worth a hoot--instead of the cream of the crop that was up there
with him.  Geniuses, after all, can take care of themselves, right?

I grew up in schools that seemed to share that notion, and the main thing I
learned was how not to study.  College was a definite awakening.

I hope that schools disabuse themselves of the notion that they don't have
to do anything special for the gifted, or can just ignore them in favor of
trying to teach the least able.

		James Jones