I quite liked the article. I didn't see him offering any kind of proposal about gifted education, either for the extreme tail or for a broader segment of the gifted. I certainly didn't see any proposal that there should be LESS effort to educate these groups.

He was addressing one very specific issue, which is the excessive "media feting" (as HK puts it) of those in the extreme tail; and the consequent pernicious effects that this Great Hero myth has on both the feted kids themselves, and on those around them who are not so singled out.