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By Sharon Esther Lampert
I am a gifted person. At the age of nine, my mother told me that I was a poet, philosopher, and teacher. And that is exactly what happened. I became a world renown poet, philosopher, and educator.
All of my work is inspired. I breathe in and then breathe out a literary masterpiece in a New York minute. My artistic gift foments without any intervention: Inspiration, impregnation, incubation, revelation, and maturation.
There are no schools to send me to develop my gifts. There are no private teachers to hire who can nurture my gifts. And most certainly, there are no tests to take that can tell my parents the good news, that they have a gifted child or what the gifts are.
It doesn’t take $30,000 in kindergarten tuition fees to nurture my gifts because the gift is on its own schedule and manifests in its own time.
Parents do have to invest a great deal of money to nurture and develop specific skills such as literary prowess, mathematical acuity, sportsmanship, artistic expression, or even business acumen, but these children are referred to as talented, and have developed a passion for their craft, but they are not gifted.
Here are nine reasons why the gifted tests, schools, and fees are a sham:
1. The experts are not “gifted” and have no idea of what it means to be possessed by a “gift.”
2. A five-year old child’s gift cannot be tested with a written or oral exam.
3. Educators want you to pay for the “gifted” course to pass their “gifted” tests to go to their “gifted” schools.
4. Novice parents will pay the hefty price tag for the “gifted”course and exam, and go into debt, or work two jobs to pay the fee of $30,000 for kindergarten. (Parents should take advantage of the free public school system and give the private school tuition money to their kid as a graduation present for investment capital to start a business).
5. Most of these children are going to graduate thinking they are “gifted” and later find out that they are not gifted or talented and feel cheated out of their destiny.
6. Charging $30,000 for kindergarten is highway robbery and bears the ugly stamp of ruthless capitalism.
7. There will be a few enrolled children who have “gifts” and these kids will drop out of the school because every gift bears a unique signature, like a fingerprint, and the gift can’t be nurtured in a group.
8. There is a very long list of talented and gifted students who have dropped out of school to actualize a dream.
The students who pass the tests are gifted and the students who fail the test go to special education. Later in life, the kids in special education turn out to be the gifted ones who are the movers and shakers of the world. The kids in special education make mistakes and the mistakes lead to new discoveries.
The pseudo-gifted kids are afraid to make mistakes and feel stupid and can't take risks and learn from their mistakes.
Memorizing voluminous facts and regurgitating facts under stress and a stopwatch does not nurture talents or gifts.Two weeks after a test, most of the facts disappear into the thin air. Vacuous test scores mean that a student earned a diploma, but not an education. Most American students are cheated out of an education.
9. The gifted bring new gifts into the world. The gift bears gifts. Too often these “psuedo-gifted” kids perform like parrots, memorizing and regurgitating infomation like well-trained circus animals.
There will only be one Mozart. Two gifted students will never write the same music composition. There are many talented pianists who will learn to play Mozart, but will never be able to compose a masterpiece because they are not gifted.
There is only one, Sharon Esther Lampert, who composed many of the world’s greatest quotes and poems and gave us the “40 Absolute Truths” in philosophy, the “22 Commandments” in theology and pioneered the “ACANDY Learning Technology.” Students, the world over, send me letters and use my poems for their school assignments. Education reform is in the pipeline because of my new ACANDY learning technology. My critical contributions of poetry, philosophy, and education have a life of their own and will outlive me.
The whole truth is that giftedness cannot be tested. It is a quality beyond the realm of most educators. The human brain is the most powerful biological machine in the world. Educators do not
