Letter: Lost talents
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Whatever happened to . . ? If there have been 5,000 families with gifted children during recent history (30 November), where are these exceptional adults now? Are they outstanding leaders, Nobel prize-winners, professors of their specialism, acknowledged brains? Have any of them taken a interest in engineering or economics?
This is a story for us all. Was their learning curve abnormally steep between birth and 12 years old, before flattening to be within a standard deviation of the normal?
Yours sincerely,
DAVID CHADDERTON
Southampton
30 November
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