Is it good to be a genius?

Brilliant children occur relatively often and teachers usually don't know how to treat them. All available methods don't work with such children and tension in the relationship between a teacher and a child increases. It leads to misunderstanding and various problems with classmates. These children are very clever and this fact prevents them from finding new friends and get along with their classmates. Child prodigies treat the world unlike their peers. They feel falsity and hypocrisy at once; they easily make conclusions and compare different phenomena. They need individual approach and individual methods of education. When these children attend lessons they are usually bored, because all the information they hear at the lessons is already known to them. They don't like to make their homework, because they can't fully use their creative potential and creative approach to what they do. Teachers in turn have common requirements for all children, they tend to unify the educational process and usually don't have time for individual approach for all children in class. They are also reluctant to communicate with clever pupils in order not to show their own ignorance in some issues. Nowadays children develop very fast and teachers often fail to maintain their own intellectual level in an appropriate level. Children often forestall their teachers.

Children know much more about computers in comparison with grown-ups, they are informed about all innovations which appear in scientific and technical sphere. Note that it refers to all children. Prodigy children know even more. It often irritates teachers, because a teacher should be an example in everything. When a teacher understands that he/she knows less than one of his/her pupils, it becomes clear to the whole class at once and it irritates the teacher. This fact discredits the teacher and leads to disrespect by pupils. In order to restore his/her respect, the teacher can resort to humiliation of the cleverest pupil and set the whole class against this child. It is not a difficult task at all, as the teacher provokes envy of the whole class to this child and it remains alone against the teacher and class. Mockeries hurt brilliant children more than their peers and they tend to retreat into themselves and stop to communicate with others. Parents are often too busy to pay attention to child's problems or simply don't notice frequent changes of their child's mood. Such a sad is the fate of the majority of talented children.