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...Barr, who abolished survey courses and books about books. Once a school for Maryland's landed gentry, St. John's became one of the most talked about experiments in U.S. education. It has yet to produce alumni with reputations to match the school's promise (its first "name" graduate: TV Quizling Charles Van Doren...
...suggests Manhattan Psychologist Victor Goertzel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children. By studying the lives of 350 well-known people, Goertzel, 46, is trying to discover what kind of families breed the species. From the first 77 cases-he is methodically working through the alphabet-Psychologist Goertzel reports, in The Gifted Child Quarterly, that...
...this turmoil may have more to do with fostering creativity than does a high IQ, says Psychologist Goertzel. He also argues that "it is not true that traumatic experiences in childhood invariably lead to emotional disturbances and failure." (Only one of his first 77 cases, Cross Founder Clara Barton, was ever confined to a mental hospital.) His subjects loved their mixed-up homes, mainly rebelled against a mixed-up society...
...Hookey. Suffragette Susan B. Anthony's father was a Quaker, an abolitionist and a temperance man who naturally took to the cause of women's rights. The hard knocks he suffered for his views swung Susan behind him and united them both in battling the world. Her first battle: boarding school, which she hated. Joseph Conrad's aristocratic Polish father was exiled to a remote part of Russia for revolutionary agitation against the Czar, made a meager living translating literature. A hungry reader from the age of five, the lonely boy was schooled largely by helping...
...Clemens' father was a restless frontiersman, always dreaming of wealth and never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...