LP>People with high IQ's can fall into 'intelligence traps'.  For instance,
  >a highly intelligent person may be able to come up with a half-baked
  >answer to a question very quickly, at which point he or she stops
  >thinking about the question, satisfied with the answer and confident
  >that they'll be able to defend their position convincingly.  This is why
  >highly intelligent people can be so shockingly out-to-lunch, why
  >intelligence has gotten a bad name, and why the English have the
  >expression 'too clever by half'.
That's true.  Also, sometimes brilliant people have more trouble in
college than your more run of the mill student because they never
learned how to study in high school.  They simply picked everything up
in class from listening to the teacher.  Suddenly, there are classes
where the teacher doesn't each you everything, and you're competing with
other brilliant students.
A young friend of mine is going to enter 9th grade at George School next
year. George School is a highly expensive, highly elite, and very
fiercely academically competitive boarding school.  It costs $24,000 a
year just for tuition, room and board.  But a graduate of George School
can go, with no trouble, to any university in the nation. She's going on
scholarship. This is a welfare kid with absolutely zilch income. She's
also astonishingly brilliant. Some of us who have befriended this
youngster were brainstorming how to help her earn her own spending
money. She's going to *have* to earn her own spending money, or she's
not going to have it.  I suggested we give her so much for every A.
Someone said, "No. She's going to be competing with kids who are as
smart as she is, and who have been to the top elementary schools in the
nation, because their parents could afford to send them there. She's a
product of public school, where she got all As with absolutely no
effort.  She's going to struggle just to get Cs that first year."  I
thought about it. And it's true. This kid is truly brilliant, and she
has *no* study skills, because she never had to develop them.
                    Sondra
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