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[quote=HowlerKarma

... which presupposes that all gifted students are autodidacts, or at least amenable to that kind of approach.

Come to think of it,that must be why educators deny the existence of children who are both gifted and not already autodidactic

Without any instruction, of course, because gifted children don't need any.

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This is what frustrates me too.