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[quote=Anonymous][quote]So your logic (or illogic as the case may be) to avert this problem (of being too advanced) is to slow a precocious child down?

Have you ever heard of this strategy for music (e.g., piano and violin) , art, language, sports development?

Would anyone (parent, teacher or administrator) with a teaspoon of brains slow a 4-year-old down from a voracious appetite of reading multiple chapter books and novels for fear this 4-year-old is too advanced for chronologic and peer group age in school (now or later)?

Why on earth would anyone put the breaks on a budding mathematician (or artist or musician)? [/quote]

Its not a race. Thats why.

Who said anything about "racing"?  I guess by that stroke of logic superbly and profoundly performing pianists, violinists, readers and swimmers are racing ... just like mathematicians ?  Does your "race" have an end or time limit?  Does knowledge and creativity have a finite end?

Can you explain your logic regarding 4-year-old kids who may perform at much higher and deeper levels (piano, violin, math, swimming, reader) than their mates?  What are the intellectual and creative "no fly-zones" for a 4-year-old (perhaps ... no more than 5 chapter books or 600 pages of reading per week)?  Of course, reading speed is immaterially in your worldview?

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