Happy Martin Luther King Day!
We joined the festivities in our town today: a march, a special concert of spirituals, and a presentation at the children's museum. It was inspiring to see how a gifted child grew into someone who made an enormous difference in such a short time:
His mother taught him to read before Kindergarten.
He skipped 9th and 12th grades in high school.
He entered college at 15.
He graduated college at age 19.
He was an ordained minister at 19.
He was Time Magazine's Man of the Year at age 34.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 35.
I wonder how different the story would have been if he'd been told, "Sorry, we don't accelerate."
In our efforts to advocate for gifted children, Martin Luther King's quote provides inspiration.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
