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To: j g cordes who wrote (34498)4/12/1999 2:54:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Child genius is a fascinating subject. Hypatia herself must have been a child genius. Michelangelo did work at 16 that made Lorenzo de Medici set him up in a studio in his palazzo. J. S. Mill was overeducated by his father but survived a breakdown to become a great thinker and writer. McCawley was another -- when asked if his finger still hurt from a burn when a young child, he replied "Madame, I find the agony has somewhat abated." Mozart is an outstanding example -- both in performance and in composition. Alexander was a child military genius.
There is a considerable difference in high achievement, kids who do very well in school in conventional studies, and creativity -- those who do things never done before. Mozart as a performer was miracle enough, but that he started to write music worth listening to today when a child is really quite astounding, since the nearly all children lack the experience and knowledge necessary for creative art and science. I suspect the brain structures necessary for mathematical thought and music composition are quite similar and very different from the mental prints needed for images which that need to be expressed through hand-eye coordination and training. I also suspect that the hand-eye skills require very early training to reach real superiority. The nervous system develops in the early years. Learning occurs discontinuously in spurts. There are times in a child's life that if learning is missed there remains a deficit. The best example is speech. There is growing evidence that the amount of talking, spoiling, and attention that the primary caregiver gives the infant is immediately reflected in IQ and other measures of verbal intelligence. I know of no studies of a child's mathematical tutoring, but it would hardly surprise that the aptitude may develop very early.
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