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