Originally Posted by quaz
It doesn't help me that her teacher informed me during conference that she feels my child is very socially-emotionally immature. *GROWL* It's obviously a weak point of hers, but not that atypical of a gifted child, especially such an emotionally intense gifted child.

What a wonderful kid!!

She's focused (enthusiastically) on other things - that makes her immature?

Since her teacher knows little about Cosmology, does that make the teacher Scientifically Naive?

I just read this short post by Cobb. She sounds a lot like him.

http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2009/11/faith-vs-articles-of-faith.html

I like his this comment by him.

"I always recall that there are social implications to Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem and that the mind rationalizes so that it doesn't halt."