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Society should identify those children who have special talents and provide training for them at an early age to develop their talents.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

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Society should identify those children who have special talents and provide training for them at an early age to develop their talents in mathematics and science as well as artistic, but not in linguistics.
In mathematics and science, society can identify those children who have special talents by competitions and should provide them with special training because the children may contribute to the fields greatly.数学和科学能够通过竞赛的方式选拔出有天分的孩子，专门培养以及训练有助于他们在自己的领域出成果，带来社会价值。举例：数学领域的Terrance Tao,科学领域的Eva Vertes和 Jessica Su
In artistic, society can also identify the gifted children by artistic competitions or programs, and should provide them with special training because the child stars have social value.艺术领域有天分的孩子可以通过比赛或者节目选出，以让童星在艺术圈发展的方式对其进行特殊培养，可以创造出更多的艺术作品，即社会价值。举例：Shirley Temple, Natalie Portman.
In linguistics, however, there is no need to train the gifted children because languages are used to communicate with others so that the gifted children can learn the languages in their daily life.语言属于社会层面，作用在于与他人交流，专门对儿童的语言进行培养难以创造社会价值。




From time to time, exceptional children with special gifts were born and the society have to think about what to do with these children who have the potential to become very useful members of the society.  I believe that resources should be devoted to identifying talented children in math and science and provide tailor-made training for them to fully realize their potential. Despite the popularity of such practices, however, identifying and training children with athletic talents for competition are ethically problematic.  

For children with special talents in mathematics, it is often quite easy to identify and special training should be provided.  Take Terrence Tao, a Fields Medal winning mathematician, for example.  Tao was recognised as a genius when he taught his 5-year-old buddies to spell and add numbers as a 2-year-old.  Given his talents in math, the regular school curriculum could not meet his educational needs.  His parents made the special arrangements for him to skip grades and started taking college-level math courses as a 11-year-old.   For gifted children like Terry, although very rare, it is important for the society to recognise them and train them in the ways they need to fully develop their talents.

Likewise, for children with talents in science, special training and opportunities for doing research are essential for their growth.  Consider the story of Eva Vertes, who became interested in research on cancer as a 10-year-old when reading a book on the topic.  As a high school student, she wrote to a professor in a local university and had the opportunities to do some researches on cancer in his lab.  The kinds of training provided in the form of working with more senior researchers in a lab turned out to be critical for the development of Vertes as a biomedical scientist.  The example clearly illustrates the importance of identification and training for children and teenagers talented in sciences.  

Nevertheless, for children talented in sports, it is ethically problematic to identify and train them at an early age.  Nowadays, in certain fields such as gymnastic and diving, children as young as 3 years olds in China were sent to training schools to practice basic skills and techniques with the hope that they may win a gold medal in Olympics Games ten years later.  Such systematic training of a large number of children for the competitive sports raises some serious ethical issues.  For one thing, the children may be forced to receive rigorous training against their wills.  In addition, among the many children receiving the training, only very few eventually won medals in national and international sports events.  For many, despite their talents and hard work, the benefits from the training are not obvious.  

In conclusion, I believe that this statement holds true for children with talents in math and science. As for children gifted in sports, identifying and training them at early stages are not always ethically acceptable or beneficial for their long-term development.



I was reading a book "Gifted Lives" talking about the experiences of gifted people.  One point the author made is that gifted children are often good at many different things.  One example was Jeremy who had to decide whether to pursue a career in music or in medicine.  I think this insight is relevant to this issue here.  We may argue that it is a bad idea to provide early training because it narrows down the children's future careers too early.  One could have become a very successful scientist if he were not trained to become a pianist, for example.  Of course, one can also argue that such specialised training can help solve the problem of too many choices that gifted children often have to face.  

The larger point I want to make is that to tackle issues in GRE writing, it is often helpful, if not necessary, to do a bit research on a given topic.  After all, the test is about how well educated one is at college level.  Presumably the more widely read you are, the more educated you look like.  



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