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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On Da Vinci’s “to do list” was to draw the inside of a woodpecker’s beak. This is an example of a gifted person never being bored!

Why do parents worry so much about their “gifted” child? If child is self-motivated, the child will find a way to utilize his/her “giftedness”.[/quote]

Da Vinci was a genius. There’s a difference between genius and being gifted. [/quote]

da Vinci was also one in a hundred thousand, not merely one in a thousand, and wasn't trapped in a school 30 hours a week. He had much more freedom than a school student. [/quote]

Some of the posters here are definitely using a definition of gifted that seems pretty different from how the term is normally used. If we're talking about era defining geniuses like Da Vinci, then likely no kid in any of our schools right now is "gifted." If we're talking about 98th or 99th percentile (which is usually what schools mean by gifted) then you're going to have a few in most schools. It seems more reasonable to talk about the latter, because they're something most of us are likely to encounter. [/quote]

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