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12 <p><strong>Go And The Gifted Child</a></strong>
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14 <p><strong>&copy; 2002 Milton N. Bradley</strong>
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16 <p>There are many kinds of "giftedness" beyond that expressed by a high score on a standard IQ
17 test, but however identified and measured each presents essentially the same problem to parents,
18 teachers and developmental psychologists - how best to nurture and develop those so identified.
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20 <p>In our society's search for equity, in recent years great emphasis has been placed upon providing
21 help and remediation to the less fortunate who have mental, emotional and physical disabilities,
22 and this is unquestionably a noble and worthwhile effort. But the reality is that essentially all of
23 human progress has been the result of the insights and talents of a select very few gifted
24 individuals and not all the rest of the vast mass of humanity. The sum of the output of all of the
25 millions of "ordinary" musicians who have ever lived does not equal that of one Mozart, nor did
26 the insight of all of the people who ever lived equal that of one Copernicus in determining the
27 true state of our solar system. So it should be apparent that if our society is to continue to
28 progress, identifying and nurturing the "gifted" among us must receive a far higher priority than
29 it has heretofore, cries of "elitism" notwithstanding.
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31 <p>It has long been known that the human brain is "incomplete" at birth, and that most of its
32 important development takes place between then and adolescence. In a feature article in The New
33 York Times of June 24, 1986 entitled "Rapid Changes Seen In Young Brain" it was reported that
34 "...there are twice as many synaptic connections ..... in certain regions of children's brains than
35 those of adults. The number of synapses seems to fall by half in early adolescence." The article
36 further states " ... the child's brain develops virtually all potentially useful neural
37 interconnections by the age of 2. But <strong>it is childhood experience that shapes the architecture of
38 the brain, strengthening the neural circuits that are used and ultimately sacrificing those
39 that are not used."</strong>
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41 <p>These facts have always been more or less intuitively recognized by parents, many of whom have
42 traditionally attempted to enhance their children's intellectual development via such devices as
43 "flash cards" to teach them specific skills such as arithmetic and language. But even when
44 augmented with physical exercise and sports training to enhance motor development, and
45 training in music and the arts to enhance cultural development, all of these historic attempts have
46 missed the most important single skill which can determine the individual's ultimate success or
47 failure in adult life, that of REASONING. In this area, the game of Go stands alone in its unique
48 ability to teach this almost infinitely valuable skill in the disguise of a pleasurable and non-threatening yet almost infinitely challenging strategic board .game
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50 <p><em><strong>The extraordinary pedagogical attributes of Go improve both the mental development and
51 REASONING processes and academic performance of <u>all</u> children, but are even more
52 efficacious for the gifted.</em></strong> Not only are gifted children naturally attracted to the challenges posed
53 by the subtle and incisive tactics and profound strategy of Go, but they most readily learn how to
54 play and then move on to the higher skill levels where the benefits to their thinking processes and
55 study habits are actually developed and refined. For this reason, in this writer's view it is
56 inevitable that Go will ultimately become an integral and essential element in the education of
57 every gifted child.
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59 <p>To learn how you can introduce Go to your school, group or organization, please send me an
60 email by clicking on my name at the bottom of my Go page.
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