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[quote=Anonymous][quote][b]You were the one who used words like "slowing down" and "putting the brakes on".[/b] I was just extending the analogy. I have trouble understanding how drilling a 4 year old with math facts (which is what they do at Kumon, BTW. This is not about teaching your child to think about math theory and abstractions, its about teaching them the multiplication tables before kindergarten) equals putting the brakes on. And I don't get your hostility and defensiveness. But, hey, have fun with all that Kumon stuff. Sounds like a blast.[/quote]

Precisely,  Einstein's theory of relativity would argue "slowing down" relatively to whom or what?  A race or speeding up relative to whom or what?
For the precocious child their pace may be too fast (or slow) for your child.

Who with a teaspoon of brains would actively slow down the progress of a 4-year-old gifted musician, mathematician, or swimmer because their talents and performance far outstrip the talents and performance of their age mates  (...besides those left behind)?  Who would tell a voracious reading child to slow down because of fear they will get to far ahead of their peers?  Who would despise this voracious reader because of their talent?   Why don't you tell Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to slow down their earnings because they make a million times more money than you do?  Do you develop the same despair to Gates and Buffet you have for talented young artists, scientists and mathematicians?

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