Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, my son has a healthy sense of skepticism and doesn't believe everything he reads or hears. I think he would really like the book Lies My Teacher Told Me.
We just started reading the book An Incomplete Education and I know that most of my son's gifted friends would not like this book, even though his friends are several years older than he is. But his dad likes history and at the moment he is reading Thomas Paine's Common Sense. I think it is nice that they have common interests that bridge the generation gap, but I really wish that my son could find other kids near us that shared his interests. He has one friend that likes history but he does not care to study it as in depth as my son does. We have also read some of a book on a cultural history of American movies that he found interesting. Because of his interests I would really like to see him work toward a liberal arts degree when he is high school age and then later, at normal college age, a degree in some science related field.
