Originally Posted by DAD22
I often found students between 1 and 2 standard deviations above normal to be the most annoying. They've had people telling them how smart they are for a long time, and they lack an appreciation for how slow they are compared to those well into the top 1%. I spent much of my high school career trying to give those students an appreciation of our differences (in math and science anyway... that's as far as my gifts go).

It reminds me of this video of a Ferrari racing a fiat... and an F1 car.



The bright kids are like the Ferrari. They think they're really fast, and that they should have kinship with other fast cars. From the perspective of the F1 car, the Ferrari isn't even fast.


You gave me an excellent laugh. A co-worker and I have talked about this before. People who are a bit smarter than average feel like they are super smart and know as much as their is to know and are as smart as can be. People who are smarter than them realize there is no ceiling on being 'smart' and are aware of just how much there is to learn and know in life.

~amy