The Curse of Genius

Like many gifted children, Tom’s childhood has often been unhappy. Some countries value extremely high intelligence more than others and offer specific educational provision for such children. But Lyn Kendall, a consultant on gifted children at Mensa – who was herself a gifted child in a working-class family – insists that reading Nietzsche to your five-year-old, or forcing them to do three hours of extra homework, cannot “make” a genius.

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