I think the point about gifted being the entry requirement is in question. entry into what? Dona Matthews' Being Smart about Gifted Education has that whole mystery/mastery thing.
If there was oodles of money and brilliant people making use of that in education and you had the mastery model optimized, where anyone could achieve mastery using whatever gifts they had, (Madeline Levine's Teach Your Children Well) then we have society of the future and term gifted is irrelevant because it encompasses Howard Gardiner's idea of gifted, not WISC IV.
And my point about prodigies, that even though they have talent, they may do nothing with it. So? Yeah, they have talent. Let's stare at them instead of the kid who had less talent, did the 10K hour thing and is playing at Carnegie Hall? That really sounds stupid.
