The value of educational acceleration.

Yesterday, an article I wrote on the value of educational acceleration was published in The Star newspaper, Malaysia. The article, "Adding value to learning ascent" (the paper's title for it), is self-explanatory. I would, however, welcome any thoughts about it below.

Here it is:

http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2012/9/23/education/12045481&sec=education

For those of you who have access to the physical newspaper, the article is listed under Opinion, in the Star Education pull out section.

Please have a read.

Thanks

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20 Minutos on Ainan Celeste Cawley

20 Minutos is the leading Spanish newspaper by readership. They did a story on Ainan recently but, since I can no longer find the story on their website, I am pasting an online clip of it, here, so that readers may find it.

Un niño de 7 años aprueba un examen preuniversitario de Química
EUROPA PRESS / 20MINUTOS.ES. 23.05.2007 - 21:06h

Ainan Celeste Cawley es medio malayo medio irlandés.
Pasó un examen para jóvenes de 16 años.

Se llama Ainan Celeste Cawley y a sus 7 años ya ha logrado aprobar un examen de Química pensado para un nivel preuniversitario, es decir, para jóvenes con al menos 16 años; se toma a Ainan como el único niño prodigio químico del mundo, y la historia de su corta vida es la historia de unos logros sorprendentemente precoces.

Pronunciaba palabras con apenas dos semanasPronunciaba algunas palabras a las dos semanas de vida, gateaba a los cuatro meses, caminaba a los seis y corría a los ocho, según aseguran sus padres en su blog; tamaño prodigio, hijo de un licenciado en Física por la Universidad de Cambridge y una artista ambidiestra, obtuvo el nivel 'O' en Química por el London Edexcel Board.

Leía libros de Química que luego comentaba

Cuentan que, cuando era pequeño, Ainan buscaba libros de ciencias en la biblioteca de la casa, mostrando preferencia por textos difíciles con complicadas ilustraciones sobre temas científicos, que luego comentaba; con tres o cuatro años estaba interesado en las formas híperdimensionales y dibujaba sus sombras en dos dimensiones a manera de juego intelectual.
Este interés hacia las estructuras abstractas se desarrolló posteriormente en un interés por las estructuras de las moléculas a medida que fue descubriendo la Química en internet; de hecho, según sus padres, a través de la navegación por la Red se educó a sí mismo en la ciencia.