http://www.simplycharly.com/Blog/creativity/what-about-the-gifted-kids/ Simplycharly Blog Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:26:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.simplycharly.com/Blog/creativity/what-about-the-gifted-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-7380 maculate Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:51:31 +0000 http://www.simplycharly.com/blog/?p=11#comment-7380 That describes my mentality precisely when I was in public school (i.e. before I went to university). In grade school in particular I was frequently infuriated by the restrictions placed on me by classes and some teachers. Fortunately, as I got older, I stumbled, usually via a chance encounter with an excellent teacher, into an appreciation for things I had loathed before. I went from loving writing to hating it and back, suffering through remedial level art classes where I basically ended up teaching my peers (ultimately I was self taught), and, most recently, I've been developing a fragile love affair with mathematics and physics after being brutalized by the subject throughout public school. I'm not so sure I would have done any better in a private school, however. That describes my mentality precisely when I was in public school (i.e. before I went to university). In grade school in particular I was frequently infuriated by the restrictions placed on me by classes and some teachers. Fortunately, as I got older, I stumbled, usually via a chance encounter with an excellent teacher, into an appreciation for things I had loathed before. I went from loving writing to hating it and back, suffering through remedial level art classes where I basically ended up teaching my peers (ultimately I was self taught), and, most recently, I’ve been developing a fragile love affair with mathematics and physics after being brutalized by the subject throughout public school. I’m not so sure I would have done any better in a private school, however.

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