Giftedness

Do you think that a large majority of people can be considered as a gifted student in some way?

My logic for this is the idea that most if not all people are good at something. One person may be gifted in politics, another in cooking, another in P.E.

So could you make the comment that everyone is gifted in some respect? It seems to me when we talk about giftedness, we are only considering it in an intellectual sense, which I deem inappropriate, as there are subjects in school that aren't heavily intellectual such as food tech.

I'm thinking that a gifted individual would be gifted in a certain area or areas, and not others.

For example you could say Albert Einstein was a gifted physicist and mathematician, but not gifted in English literature.

I think part of my point is that I'm asking if this is how we should categorise giftedness, as in, it makes it redundant to consider a student as gifted overall, instead we should be considering if they are gifted in an a subject area (or maybe several).

Submitted November 29, 2016 at 10:20PM by j_complex http://ift.tt/2fBjqfv