Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-09 | Page 4 | What a Prodigy Misses

WHAT A PRODIGY MISSES C CHILD HILD prodigies generally speaking are more to be pitied than admired Joanna Xenos 7 who went from the first to the eighth grade of school in one year undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly has a superb intelligence quota But Just the same she is decidedly out of her class Having such a swift mental development development develop develop- ment it would be even more cruel to keep her confined in a primary room than it is to let her take her place with those her age as far faras faras faras as her mind is concerned The pity rests in the fact that now and then a child gets cheated out of childhood because he Is too bright In after years when his normal cont contemporaries have caught up with him no one will care that he was wasa was was' wasa a very bright boy or girl as a child He wont won't ei either ther He will just remember that he missed out on n hide-and-go hide seek and jumping ropes and marbles because his mind kept thinking about the law of diminishing returns and calculus or something else that children have no business being eing bothered with anyway