The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy: Raffles and the Laboratory

The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy

This is the true story of scientific child prodigy, and former baby genius, Ainan Celeste Cawley, written by his father. It is the true story, too, of his gifted brothers and of all the Cawley family. I write also of child prodigy and genius in general: what it is, and how it is so often neglected in the modern world. As a society, we so often fail those we should most hope to see succeed: our gifted children and the gifted adults they become. Site Copyright: Valentine Cawley, 2006 +

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Raffles and the Laboratory

It has been about eleven months in the coming, but finally we have a laboratory for Ainan.

Raffles Institution have agreed to give Ainan some basic training in the procedures of a chemical lab. This is great news for us. We only wish it had come months ago, for Ainan"s progress has been held up considerably by this delay: basically he has been able to acquire no lab skills since the need arose almost a year ago. This is a serious deficiency in his scientific training. Hopefully, he will now be able to make up for lost ground.

Our thanks to Raffles for making the necessary arrangements.

Tomorrow is Ainan"s first day in the lab. He is really looking forward to it.

Labels: Ainan, Chemistry, Laboratory, Raffles Institution

posted by Valentine Cawley @ 4:39 PM

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: That's wonderful! I hope Ainan enjoys his first day in the lab.; 6:53 AM
Valentine Cawley said...: Thanks. I hope he enjoys it too.

Best wishes to you; 10:24 AM

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Name: Valentine Cawley

Location: Singapore

As a child, I had many gifts...perhaps too many - and this leads to the characteristic problem many gifted children face: what to do, when there is so much you COULD do. I resolved the issue by doing each of them serially throughout my life. I had gifts in science, writing, art, music, acting and academia...and so my life has demonstrated each of these, at some time. However, in the modern world, those who specialize, and focus all their efforts on one thing, tend to win through. In the light of this I have written two books, which are being prepared for publication. I was a child in a time when being gifted was not something people spoke about: it was not a widely recognized situation - at least not in my background. Nothing special was done therefore, to help. It is my wish that all in that position, these days, receive the support that is needed, to become the best they can be. I have been an actor, a writer of two books, a government physicist, at age 17, the founding editor of an Arts magazine, at 22, and a performance artist whose work was covered by CNN (interviewer: Richard Blystone) and Reuters. However, my greatest achievement is to have fathered three sons.

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The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy

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Raffles and the Laboratory

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