Word: giftedness
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Every community should have full compulsory education from kindergarten to eighth, as well as courses for the gifted, normal and exceptional. From then on education should be voluntary, with one school for liberal arts and one or more for vocational, trade, shop or agriculture, depending on the community needs.
In theory at least, Soviet schools avoid grouping pupils by ability. Says Malkova: "We are in principle against the IQ theory. We consider that every healthy child is capable of effectively mastering the school program." Even so, a few gifted or privileged students are selected for special schools.
Bogarde's hero, Rooke, ages and deepens during the course of a year, and a final irony is that he is so drawn in the end by his military occupation that he considers becoming a professional warrior. The general who dissuades him is one of a dozen or more...
Nearly as big as the U.S., this plateau is literally out of the world-on Venus. Though the perpetual cloud cover of the earth's nearest planetary neighbor has kept its surface tantalizingly hidden, Venus' veil is being lifted by a gifted robot. The Pioneer-Venus Or biter...
By the age of 25 Picasso was an able and gifted artist, but not yet a modern one. He had managed to tame the mannerism of the Blue Period, with its wistful elongations and neurotic passivity of form, by studying Degas. In the Woman with a Fan, 1905, with its...