As a child, my school evaluated all students’ IQs, and the ones above a certain score were labeled “MGM” (mentally gifted minors) and put into “gifted” classes. Nothing has held me back more in life than being told I’m objectively smarter than someone else.
It has taken years to respect the virtue of discipline in learning. Throughout school, and then into adult life, if something didn’t come easily to me, I would abandon it instantly, because the notion of having to work for a skill was so foreign to me.
We should never praise the child (you’re so smart), we should praise their effort (great work on this).
Yeah same here. It fucks you up. Bothing wrong with evaluating children to see who might struggle and who might have an easier time. But these separate classes and being told that the classes are gifted is the issue.
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As a child, my school evaluated all students’ IQs, and the ones above a certain score were labeled “MGM” (mentally gifted minors) and put into “gifted” classes. Nothing has held me back more in life than being told I’m objectively smarter than someone else.
It has taken years to respect the virtue of discipline in learning. Throughout school, and then into adult life, if something didn’t come easily to me, I would abandon it instantly, because the notion of having to work for a skill was so foreign to me.
We should never praise the child (you’re so smart), we should praise their effort (great work on this).
Yeah same here. It fucks you up. Bothing wrong with evaluating children to see who might struggle and who might have an easier time. But these separate classes and being told that the classes are gifted is the issue.
Yeah, we are all a bunch of scarred weirdos. o/