Catchphrases about talent. Quotes about talent

Talent is a gift over which a person has control; a genius-gift that dominates the person himself.
D. Lowell

Talent is the ability to find your own destiny.
T. Mann

Talent is the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly.
F. Dostoevsky

Talent is the very thing that doesn’t fit “one size fits all”; the cowlicks always stick out. If you cut off all the curls, everything is cut smoothly - a plane of uniformity.
I. Sokolov-Mikitov

Another person's talent seems less than it is, because he always sets too big tasks for himself.
F. Nietzsche

Talent is a spark of God with which a person burns himself, illuminating the path for others with his own fire.
V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will.
K. Dossey

Talent is something so mysterious that when everyone knows about the earth, about its past and future, when everyone knows about the Sun and stars, about fire and flowers, when everyone knows about man, they will be the last to know what is talent...
R. Gamzatov

Talent develops from a feeling of love for the work, it is even possible that talent - in its essence - is love for the work, for the process of work.
M. Gorky

Talent makes it easy to do what is difficult for others; genius does what talent cannot do.
A.F. Amiel

Talent is like a callus on the foot: the bathhouse attendant will cut it off and restore the activity of the foot.
V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength.
M. Gorky

Talent is power over others.
V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is like money: you don’t have to have it to talk about it.
J. Renard

Talent is, first of all, a purposeful will to action.
L. Leonov

Talent is something you have; genius is what masters you.
M. Cowley

Talent is what you did, not what you wanted.
L. Gurchenko

Talents are not nobility to be passed on from generation to generation.
D. Diderot

Talents are formed in peace, characters are formed amid the storms of life.
I. Goethe

We guess talent from one single manifestation, but to guess character, it takes a long time and constant communication.
G. Heine

The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people.
N. Karamzin

Everyday talent means being the master of your own destiny (there is no guarantee that he can be the master of your destiny), being polite and helpful with any, even the most inveterate idiot.
A. Ryunosuke

Talent and knowledge are a bright light, without them there is no way out of the darkness.
A. Rudaki

The talent of a prose writer comes down to three talents: the talent of a poet, the talent of a historian or biographer, and the talent of everyday life.
A. Ryunosuke

The talent of a good prose writer in the choice of media is to approach poetry, but not to go beyond it.
F. Nietzsche

True talents do not get angry because of criticism: She cannot damage their beauty, Only fake flowers are afraid of rain.
I. Krylov

A talented poet necessarily loves wine, but a drinker is not necessarily a talented poet.
Zhang-Chao.

Talent is the ability to understand something about the creator, the ability to see a miracle.
Alexander Kruglov

Talent hits targets that ordinary people cannot hit, and genius hits targets that ordinary people cannot see.

Only in happy moments does talent manage to make a line from dots, drawn by a genius with one stroke of the pen.
M. Ebner Eschenbach

Talent is a condition, not a criterion of creativity. To destroy, you also need talent.
Vladimir Mikushevich

Almost everyone is at least a little talented, yes, poets, even carpenters, if they are talented. Poetry is the inner fire of every talent.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Talent lies in the ability to see in one moment and as a single structure entire complex dependencies. A perspective opens up that connects whole series of phenomena and ideas into a single existence, into a single image of reality.
Alexey Ukhtomsky

The tragedy of talented people is often that they are stupid people. The tragedy of smart people is often that they lack talent.
Theodore Oyzerman

Without the intervention of extraordinary talent, everything beautiful remains unrecognized.
Joseph Joubert

Each person has his own calling. Talent is knowing it.
Ralph Emerson

Talent is a developed natural inclination.
Honore de Balzac

If you want to be the master of your talent, serve it.
Gennady Matyushov

Talent without ambition is doomed to extinction.
Andrey Lavrukhin

Genius is the talent to create something for which no specific rules can be given.

In vanity, talent dries up, mediocrity thrives.
Vladimir Lebedev

Talent matures through resistance and dies through violence.
Boris Andreev

Talent without work never blossoms, and work without talent does not even sprout.
Gennady Matyushov

Talent without courage is the greatest sorrow of an artist.
Boris Andreev

Great talents are products of painful passion.
Victor Cherbullier

Talent is the ability to give work to the soul.
Alexander Kruglov

Talent is passion.
Vasily Rozanov

That talent has a means, mediocrity has a goal.
Valentin Lukyanov

Bad taste occurs in both talent and mediocrity, but in talent when it sows, in mediocrity when it reaps.
Gennady Matyushov

Talent is the ability to do something that no one taught us.
Alfred Konar

Talent is like lust. It's hard to hide. It's even harder to simulate.
Sergey Dovlatov

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent is not in writing one page, but in writing three hundred.
Jules Renard

The main sign of talent is when a person knows what he wants.

Labor is already a need of talent, and not the father of talent!
Varlam Shalamov

Imagine for a moment that he died and you will see how talented he is.
Jules Renard

When we say: “X is talented,” they involuntarily imagine a certain degree of stupidity that X is allowed to have.
Karol Izhikowski

Don't look a gifted horse in the mouth.
Lazar Lagin

He has a talent for selling talent that he doesn't have.
Gabriel Laub

To prove your talent, you have to be very capable.
Vladilen Prudovsky

Every talent is eventually buried in the ground.
Emil Krotky

Only mediocrity is always in shape.
Somerset Maugham

In the creation of material culture, the mediocre worker is first and foremost a worker; in the creativity of spiritual culture, a mediocre worker is first and foremost mediocrity.
Grigory Landau

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Henry Haskins

In the realm of the spirit there are very fertile impotent people.
Stanislav Vitkevich

The state of creative impotence, alas, does not interfere with creativity.
Leszek Kumor

Talent is the infinite ability to imitate genius.
Author unknown

Talent is like a thoroughbred horse, you need to learn how to control it, and if you pull the reins in all directions, the horse will turn into a nag.
M. Gorky

Talent is our prized tormentor.
T. Capote

Talent is like an item pawned in a pawn shop. It is not always possible to redeem, that is, sell.
V. Zubkov

Talent is a bird that nests wherever it pleases, sometimes in a deep forest, and sometimes in a trimmed park.
G. Senkevich

Talent in a man is the same as beauty in a woman - just a promise. To be truly great, his heart and character must be equal to his talent.
O. Balzac

Talent is both blind and too subtle,
To master life yourself
And a boor, a money-grubber and a scumbag
They always accompany him.
I. Guberman

As soon as an outstanding talent appears in any profession, immediately all the mediocrities of this profession try to hush up the matter and by any means deprive him of the opportunity and opportunity to become famous and declare himself before the world, as if he were planning an attempt on their inability, banality and mediocrity.
A. Schopenhauer

Talent has nothing to do with rank and post,
He is interested in salt and essence,
And those who are missing stars from the sky,
They try to hang them on their chest.
I. Guberman

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.
W. Shakespeare

Great talents incur hatred, just as iron rusts; mediocrity alone has no enemies.
J. d'Alembert

Sometimes great talents come from bad qualities.
F. La Rochefoucauld

Your child has abilities in one of eight areas of human activity. A test questionnaire developed by psychologists and specialists in the field of child psychology A. de Haan and G. Kaf can evaluate the correctness of your assumption about the child’s abilities. “How to recognize a child’s talents? The article will tell you HOW TO DO AND HOW NOT TO DO how parents should behave with a gifted child. It will also invite you to carefully read the statements that will make it easier for you to understand how you can help your children develop. In conclusion, you will get acquainted with a wise parable for children and parents “About vocation and talent - The Little Artist”

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Every person is talented. All you have to do is find your way.

Talent without self-confidence is worthless.

Talent without work and knowledge is like porridge without butter.

Talent is just clay from which something can be molded.

Talented children

Talent is like a pearl in a shell. Sometimes the shells are open, and in this case the child’s talent is obvious: he draws beautifully, sings, writes poetry, music, adds three-digit numbers in his mind... You have to try very hard not to notice the obvious - this child is a talent. There are very few such children.

There are many more children with “closed shells.” The abilities are there, but you need to make an effort to recognize and develop them. Not all parents, unfortunately, have enough time and desire for this. So moms and dads then complain that “he just wants to watch TV,” “he just wants to sit at the computer,” “he just wants to walk in the yard.” And mothers and fathers forget that once they had “no time” to take the child on his way. Laziness can ruin any talent. Talent and laziness are not compatible.

Your task is to help your child develop his abilities by involving him in a variety of activities: art, science, mathematics, etc.
A child's brain develops faster when it receives new information. Without training, even the most outstanding talents can wither away. Psychologists believe that there are many more geniuses and talented people among us than is believed.

Some abilities emerge early, while others take time. So, for example, musical or plastic abilities can manifest themselves very early, but the manifestation of literary abilities sometimes requires its own time and certain life experience.

Let us not rush to declare a child untalented if he does not show himself to be a young talent. This means only one thing: the “buds” of his abilities have not yet opened. Let's not forget that some flowers bloom in early spring, while others bloom only in late summer.

TEST QUESTIONNAIRE “How to recognize a child’s talents?”

Your childtechnical abilities, if he:

interested in a wide variety of mechanisms and machines;
loves to design models and devices;
he himself “gets to the bottom” of the causes of malfunctions and vagaries of mechanisms or equipment,
can repair damaged devices and mechanisms, use old parts to create new toys, devices, crafts, and finds original solutions;
loves and knows how to draw; “sees” drawings and sketches of mechanisms;

Your child hasmusical talent, if he:

loves music and musical records, always goes where he can listen to music;
responds very quickly and easily to rhythm and melody, listens carefully to them, and remembers them easily;
composes his own melodies;

has learned or is learning to play any musical instrument, puts a lot of feeling and energy into the performance, as well as his mood;

Your childabilities for scientific work, once he:

has a clearly expressed ability to understand abstract concepts and generalizations;
knows how to clearly express in words someone else’s and his own thoughts or observations, and often writes them down not for the purpose of boasting, but for himself;
loves to read popular science publications, adult articles and books, several years ahead of his peers, and gives preference to this rather than entertaining literature;
often tries to find his own explanation of the causes and meaning of a wide variety of events;
enjoys spending time creating his own projects, designs, schemes, collections;
does not become discouraged and does not stop working for a long time if his invention or project is not supported or ridiculed.

Artistic talentwill manifest itself in your child in that he:

often, when he lacks words, expresses his feelings through facial expressions, gestures and movements;
seeks to evoke emotional reactions in others when he talks passionately about something;
changes the tone and expression of his voice, involuntarily imitating the person he is talking about;
speaks in front of an audience with great desire, and strives for his audience to be adults;
with an ease that surprises you, he “mimics” someone’s habits, postures, expressions;
flexible and open to everything new;

Your childextraordinary intelligence, if he:

reasons well, thinks clearly, understands what is unsaid, grasps the reasons and motives of other people’s actions;
has a good memory;
easily and quickly grasps new school material;
asks a lot of thoughtful and situation-justified questions;
loves to read books, and according to his own program, several years ahead of the school one;
outperforms his peers in studies, and is not necessarily an excellent student, often complains that he is bored at school;
much better and more widely informed than many of his peers about events and problems that do not directly concern him (about world politics, economics, science, etc.);
has self-esteem and common sense, is reasonable beyond his years, even prudent;
very receptive, observant, quickly, but not necessarily acutely, reacts to everything new and unexpected in life.

Don't be angry with your naughty guy - he just hassports talent:

he is very energetic and wants to move all the time;
he is brave to the point of recklessness and is not afraid of bruises and bumps;
he almost always gets the upper hand in fights or wins in some sports game;
it is not known when he managed to learn how to deftly handle skates and skis, balls and clubs;
better than many other peers physically developed and coordinated in movements, moves easily, plastically, gracefully;
prefers games, competitions, even aimless running around to books and other quiet entertainments;
it seems that he never gets seriously tired;
it doesn’t matter whether he is interested in all sports or just one, but he has his own sports hero, whom he openly or secretly imitates.

Your childliterary talent, if he:

when talking about something, he knows how to stick to the chosen plot without losing the main idea;
likes to fantasize or improvise on the theme of a real event, and adds something new and unusual to the event;
chooses words in his oral or written stories that well convey the emotional state, experiences and feelings of the characters in the story;
depicts the characters of his fantasies as lively and interesting, humanized;
loves to write stories and poems in solitude, and is not afraid to start writing a novel about his own life.

And finally artistic abilityYour child may experience the following:

not finding words or choking on them, resorts to drawing or modeling in order to express his feelings or mood;
in his drawings and pictures he reflects all the diversity of objects, people, animals, situations, and does not “get hung up” on the image of something completely successful;
takes works of art seriously, becomes thoughtful and very focused when his attention is drawn to a work of art or landscape;
in his free time he willingly sculpts, draws, draws, combines materials and paints;
strives to create any work that has obvious practical value - decoration for the home, clothing, or something similar;
he is not shy to express his own opinion even about classical works, and may even try to criticize them, citing quite reasonable arguments.

HOW TO DO IT

Create conditions for “encouraging” talent.
Don't cultivate the need to succeed. Don’t force him to do something nice for you all the time, using his uniqueness.
Don’t force yourself to get too involved in what you love and don’t overload it.
Teach patience and reward for all efforts.
Tactfully, delicately help him.
Learn to lose and not perceive any failure as a tragedy.
Be calm about your child’s emotional swings.
Build relationships with peers. Learn to be friendly in a group.
Try to explain that it is inconvenient to correct others, showing your education and superiority.
Pay as much attention as possible to the child’s physical activity.
Monitor the level of motor development and help master various physical skills.
Encourage him all the time.
Consider yourself the luckiest of parents.
Do not clip the child’s wings, but go on a “flight” with him.

WHAT NOT TO DO how parents should behave with a gifted child

Ignore the child’s gift or deliberately elevate it to the skies all the time.
Raise him like an ordinary child or create “mimosa” living conditions.
Consider it abnormal to some extent or emphasize the child’s super-giftedness.
Keep him down all the time or consider him unattainable for everyone.
Punish curiosity or encourage it so much that it may end in some kind of breakdown.
By any means, slow down development or speed it up so much that the baby will not be able to do it.
To specifically oppose other children in the family or in a children's group and incite rivalry or jealousy.
Do not teach communication skills with peers and cultivate in the child a sense of superiority over peers.
Do not help solve problems with teachers.
Increase his vulnerability and sense of guilt.
Try to raise all the standards that your child imitates.
Dramatize all failures.
Try to expose to everyone any shortcomings of the baby.
Emphasize his physical imperfection all the time and thereby infringe on the child’s pride, or not pay attention to how physically developed your child is, and do not try to help him learn skills, believing that the most important thing is intelligence.
Do not understand the baby’s problems and do not try to resolve them or artificially expand them ad infinitum.
Consider that you and your child are simply unlucky, and blame him for this all the time.
Overprotective or not helpful in any way.
In order for your child to be standard, clip his wings all the time.

In conclusion, we invite you to carefully review the statements compiled by David Lewis (1979), who has studied extensive material related to the experiences of thousands of families. This will make it easier for you to understand how you can help your children develop.Choose statements with which you completely agree and count their number.

30 answers for parents who want to help their child develop

I answer all of the child's questions with the utmost patience and honesty.
I take serious questions and statements from a child seriously.
I made a stand where children can display their work.
I don’t scold a child for making a mess in his room or on his desk if it’s related to a creative activity and the work isn’t finished yet.
I provided the child with a room (or part of a room) exclusively for his studies.
I show my child that I love him simply for who he is, and not for his achievements.
I help the child make his own plans and make decisions.
I take my child with me on interesting trips.
I help the child improve the result of his work.
I set a behavioral standard and make sure the child follows it.
I never tell a child that he is worse than other children.
I provide the child with books and materials for his favorite activities.
I teach my child to think independently.
I read to my child regularly.
I teach my child to read from an early age.
I encourage the child to come up with stories and fantasize.
I am attentive to the individual needs of the child.
I find time every day to be alone with my child.
I allow my child to take part in planning family activities and travel.
I praise the child for the poems, stories and songs he has learned.
I teach my child to communicate freely with adults of any age.
I design hands-on experiments to help the child learn more.
I encourage the child to find problems and solve them.
I find something worthy of praise in the child’s activities.
I am honest about my feelings towards my child.
There are no topics that I completely exclude from discussion with my child.
I help my child choose TV programs that deserve attention.
I develop in the child a positive perception of his abilities.
I encourage the child to be as independent as possible from adults.
I prefer that the child does most of the work he takes on himself, even if I am not sure of the positive end result.

So how many answers did you get?

We hope that you did not agree with all statements. Of these phrases, no more than 20% can be adopted, and the rest are still worth thinking about... Why? Yes, because there are “two big differences” between stimulating healthy development and “greenhouse cultivation,” as they say.

If you agreed with all the statements or with 90% of them, then you should cool down your educational ardor and give more freedom to both yourself and your child. Otherwise, you risk growing a “greenhouse plant” or raising a “little old man” who does not know how to enjoy life.

Don't turn a healthy concern for your child's development into an unhealthy concern. Remember a gardener growing flowers under a cover and watering them with warm water...

Wise parables for children and parents

About vocation and talent - Little Artist

A curly-haired boy carefully drew a huge rooster with charcoal on the white wall of the house.

Ah, wretch! – the mother screamed. The boy jumped up and ran away. In the evening, the father gave his son multi-colored paint, and the rooster became a real handsome man.

You can’t wash away the coal, so let there be a picture,” said the satisfied father.

The boy knew how to draw beautiful pictures, and the father apprenticed his son to a shoemaker. The boy dreamed of becoming an artist, but his father did not have money to pay for his studies.

A month later, the shoemaker brought the student home and showed his parents a patent black boot. A red bird appliqué made of leather was sewn onto the top of the boot.

Admire what this brat did! - the shoemaker shouted.

How beautiful! - the parents gasped.

These are dress boots for an officer. “What will he look like at the parade with red birds on his boots,” the shoemaker explained angrily and left.

Then the father apprenticed his son to a tailor. Everything happened again. The boy embroidered a colorful peacock on a gray suit prepared for the teacher.

Both the carpenter and the potter drove the boy away for his unsolicited artistic work.

One day a cart stopped near the boy's house. The gentleman, looking out of the window, asked:
- Who painted this wonderful rooster?

They called the boy. The gentleman shook his hand and said:
- Congratulations, you have great talent. I'm an artist, do you want to become my student?

I want it more than anything in the world! - the boy shouted.

Thank you, sir. All of his apprentices kicked him out: the tailor, the shoemaker, and the carpenter. “We thought he was incapable of anything,” the mother complained.

“You can’t wrap fire in paper,” the gentleman said laughing and invited the boy into the cart.

Questions and tasks

Does the talent given to a person from birth always manifest itself in life?
If you were allowed to decorate the walls of your home with drawings, what would you draw?
Does a person’s talent always manifest itself in childhood? Can talent manifest itself in old age?
Draw the birds from the parable with which the boy decorated everything around him.

: Sacrifice and talent always go together.

Konstantin Melikhan:

Talent creates for fans, and genius for posterity.

Martin du Gard:

Without effort, talent is like fireworks: it blinds for a moment, and then there is nothing left.

Benjamin Franklin:

Talents that go unused are like a sundial in the shadows.

P.L. Kapitsa:

The main sign of talent is when a person knows what he wants.

K.S. Stanislavsky:

Talent is the desire to work, and secondly, the ability to work.

N.G. Chernyshevsky:

The truth is the power of talent; wrong direction destroys the strongest talent.

Georges Elgozy:

What a genius fears most is work - it turns him into talent.

Lion Feuchtwanger:

A talented person, talented in all areas.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald:

Talent is the ability to embody what you are aware of. There is no other definition of talent.

Jean de La Bruyère:

The mind relates to talent as the whole relates to the part.

Robert De Niro:

Talent is, first of all, the ability to make the right choice.

Fenimore Cooper:

There is nothing exceptional about true talent. It was sent down by nature and appeals to it.

Jim Carrey:

If you have talent, it will protect you.

F.M. Dostoevsky:

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.

Maxim Gorky:

Talent is like a thoroughbred horse, you need to learn how to control it, and if you pull the reins in all directions, the horse will turn into a nag.

Robert Schumann:

Talent works, genius creates.

Cher:

For a long time I was popular in America not because of my talent, but because of my fame.

Stas Yankovsky:

Talent is not conscience, you can sell it, it won’t hurt you.

Stas Yankovsky:

Selling talent simply means making money from it - it has nothing to do with selling conscience.

Kurt Vonnegut:

Just because you have a talent doesn't mean you have to use it.

Marilyn Monroe:

I'm recovering alone. Career is born in society - talent is born in personal life.

Michele Placido:

Talent decides everything: either you have it or you don’t.

Vasil Bykov:

Talent, as we know, is a very elusive, volatile, changeable quality; it cannot be tested by algebra and can only be verified by labor, work - the final result of creativity.

Charles Bukowski:

Ambition rarely helps talent. Luck is another matter. Talent always follows on her heels.

Vissarion Belinsky:

In true talent, every face is a type, and every type is a familiar stranger to the reader.

Fyodor Bondarchuk:

If you have even a drop of talent, work will do the rest. Patience, self-discipline and perseverance. But there are many examples when people achieved great heights through hard work, without talent, and there were people with talent who disappeared into oblivion. You have to work, you have to work.

Honore de Balzac:

Will can and should be a source of pride much more than talent. If talent is the development of natural inclinations, then a strong will is a victory achieved every minute over instincts, over drives that the will curbs and suppresses, over obstacles and obstacles that it overcomes, over all sorts of difficulties that it heroically overcomes.

Honore de Balzac:

Talent in a man is the same as beauty in a woman - just a promise. To be truly great, his heart and character must be equal to his talent.

Let's talk about giftedness...

In educational activities, gifted children are distinguished by the following:

They want to achieve success in their studies and acquire knowledge, without perceiving this as violence against themselves.

Capable of independent action thanks to previously acquired mental skills.

They are able to critically evaluate the surrounding reality and penetrate into the essence of things and phenomena.

Immersed in philosophical problems relating to issues of life and death, religion and the essence of the universe.

They are not content with superficial explanations, even if they seem sufficient to their peers.

They constantly strive for self-improvement and try to do everything well (perfectionism). Hence the setting of inflated goals and difficult experiences if it is impossible to achieve them.

They can fully concentrate their attention and immerse themselves in a problem, suppressing any “interference.”

They are able to record their experience and quickly apply it in extreme situations.

The lesson is especially interesting for them when there is a search and research situation, improvisation and paradoxes.

They are able to identify the main thing in a problem and in life, which is necessary at the moment for self-realization.

Better than their peers, they are able to reveal the relationship between phenomena and essence, use logical operations, systematize and classify material.

They are acutely aware of injustice in the event of a violation of moral norms and relationships.

But, like any object of study, gifted children also have their disadvantages.

The negative aspects of gifted children are the following personality traits:

Egocentrism and inability to take another person’s point of view, especially if he is intellectually weaker.

Dislike of school if the curriculum is boring and uninteresting.

A lag in physical development compared to peers, as a gifted child prefers intellectual activities. Hence the inability to take part in collective sports games.

Lack of a culture of dialogue and the desire to finish the interlocutor’s thought, since from the first words he grasps the essence of the problem.

The desire to interrupt and correct the interlocutor during a conversation if he makes logical errors or incorrectly places emphasis on words.

The desire to always be right in a dispute due to the lack of conformity and the ability to compromise.

The desire to command his peers - otherwise he becomes bored with them.

All these not very nice character traits of a gifted child, which are a continuation of his merits, can cause hostility among peers and push them away from themselves: it is no secret that, being in a regular school, a gifted student often annoys teachers by the fact that he or she already knows everything , or asks so many questions that he draws the teacher’s attention only to himself. As a result, the gifted student is isolated from the rest of the class. Transferring to a higher class based on knowledge of the program leads to a severance of friendships and difficulties in establishing such connections in the new class. As a result, many gifted children feel like outcasts at school. The class-lesson system of education, while a good incentive for average students, becomes a brake and a scourge for the gifted.

Therefore, it is necessary to work with a gifted child either according to an individual program, or send him to a special school where gifted children like himself study.

Work according to an individual plan with large volumes of educational tasks.

Providing more independence.

Requirement to complete a regular learning task in several alternative versions

Paying more attention to physical and moral development.

Mental talent, based on good memory, does not always lead to its highest manifestation - creativity. There is evidence from psychological research that a high level of intelligence is not always associated with an equally high level of creative potential. But it is this ability to be creative that attracts researchers the most. It turns out that you can know a lot, but not be able to invent anything new and original.

The fact is that for educational activities, predominantly convergent thinking, aimed at finding a logically unique correct answer, is more important, and for creativity, divergent thinking is important, which assumes that several correct answers can be given to the same question.

If we speak figuratively, then template thinking is a search in the same direction, deepening the same hole, unconventional thinking is an attempt to dig a hole in a different place. The reluctance to leave a half-dug hole is partly due to the fact that it is a pity for the effort spent on digging it. On the other hand, they hold obligations to society to follow the chosen path.

According to E. Bonet, there are four basic principles of unconventional thinking. This:

awareness of dominant ideas and the ability to abandon them;

searches for various alternative approaches to phenomena;

liberation from the strict control of stereotyped thinking;

use of occasion.

Creative development of your child. Tips from David Lewis

Answer your child's questions patiently and honestly. Take your child's questions and statements seriously. Provide your child with a room or corner exclusively for his activities. Make a stand where your child can display their work.

Don't scold your child for making a mess on the table if it's related to his creative process. Show your child that he is loved and accepted unconditionally, i.e. for who he is, and not for successes and achievements.

Entrust your child with feasible tasks and concerns. Help him make his own plans and decisions. Help him improve his work results.

Take your child on trips to interesting places.

Help your child communicate with children from different cultural backgrounds,

Do not compare your child with others, while pointing out his shortcomings.

Do not humiliate your child, do not let him feel that he is somehow worse than you.

Teach your child to think for himself.

Provide your child with books, games and other things he needs for his favorite activities.

Encourage your child to make up stories and fantasize. Do it with him.

Get him used to reading regularly from an early age.

Be attentive to his needs.

Find time every day to be alone with your child.

Include your child in a joint discussion of common family matters.

Don't reproach your child for mistakes.

Praise for any successes.

Teach him to communicate with adults of any age.

Design hands-on experiments to help your child learn more.

Do not forbid your child to play with all sorts of rubbish - this stimulates his imagination.

Encourage your child to find problems and then solve them.

Praise your child only for specific successes and actions and do it sincerely.

Be honest about your feelings for your child. Do not limit the range of topics discussed with your child. Give your child the opportunity to make their own decisions and take responsibility for them. Help your child become an individual.

Help your child find interesting TV and radio programs.

Develop in your child a positive perception of his abilities.

Encourage your child to be as independent as possible from adults.

Have faith and trust in your child's common sense. Never brush off your child’s failures by telling him “you can’t do that either.” Prefer that your child does most of the work he or she undertakes independently, even if you are not sure of a positive end result.

Keep a diary of observations of your child's development and analyze the development process.

Problems of gifted children

1. Dislike for school. This attitude often arises because the curriculum is boring and uninteresting for gifted children. Behavior problems may occur because the curriculum does not match their abilities.

2. Gaming interests. Gifted children like complex games and are not interested in those that their peers are interested in. As a result, the gifted child finds himself isolated and withdraws into himself.

3. Conformity. Gifted children, rejecting standard requirements, are not inclined to conformism, especially if these standards run counter to their interests.

4. Immersion in philosophical problems. It is common for gifted children to think about such things as death, the afterlife, religious beliefs, and philosophical issues.

5. Discrepancy between physical, intellectual and social development. Gifted children often prefer to interact with older children. Because of this, it is sometimes difficult for them to become leaders.

6. Striving for excellence. Gifted children are characterized by an internal need for perfection. Hence the feeling of dissatisfaction, personal inadequacy and low self-esteem.

7. Need for adult attention. Due to the desire for knowledge, gifted children often monopolize the attention of teachers, parents and other adults. This causes friction in relationships with other children. Gifted children are often intolerant of children who are inferior to them in intellectual development. They may alienate others with remarks that convey contempt or impatience.

8. Researchers show gifted children are more sensitive to new situations, which leads to special difficulties. Therefore, a teacher working with gifted children must be prepared for such work.

Qualities a teacher needs to work with gifted children

The teacher must:

be friendly and sensitive;

understand the peculiarities of the psychology of gifted children, feel their needs and interests;

have a high level of intellectual development;

have a wide range of interests and skills;

have some other education in addition to pedagogical education;

be prepared to perform a wide variety of duties related to the education of gifted children;

have a lively and active character;

have a sense of humor (but without a tendency to sarcasm);

show flexibility, be ready to reconsider your views and constant self-improvement;

have a creative, perhaps unconventional personal worldview;

have good health and vitality;

have special postgraduate training in working with gifted children and be ready to further acquire special knowledge.

As practice shows, the most effective method of interaction between a teacher and a gifted child is individual lessons with an emphasis on his independent work with the material. A subject teacher needs to:

Draw up a lesson plan with the child, taking into account the topic of his self-education, inclinations (humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, music, etc.), and the child’s mental characteristics

Determine consultation topics on the most complex and confusing issues.

Select the form of the child’s report on the subject (tests, questions, etc.) for certain periods of time.

Provide the child with:

topic name,

topic study plan,

basic questions,

concepts and terms that he must learn,

practical work,

list of required literature,

forms of control,

self-test assignments.

To analyze the results of your work, create a table:

item

date and time of consultation

main issues addressed

time to work with the topic according to the program

actual time spent

additional questions not covered by the program

unanswered questions

reasons for deviations from deadlines.

The teacher needs to be friendly and sensitive, take into account the child’s psychological characteristics, encourage his creative and productive thinking, and strive for in-depth study of the chosen topic.

Parents must strive to develop the following personal qualities in their children:

Confidence based on a sense of self-worth

Understanding the strengths and weaknesses in yourself and others

Intellectual curiosity and willingness to take research risks

Respect for kindness, honesty, friendliness, empathy, patience and spiritual courage.

The habit of relying on one’s own strengths and the willingness to take responsibility for one’s actions.

Ability to help find common ground and joy in communicating with people of all ages, races, socioeconomic and educational levels.

Parents will create excellent conditions for the development of these qualities if they demonstrate through their own behavior that:

They value what they want to instill in their child morally, socially or intellectually.

They accurately calculate the moment and degree of response to the child’s needs. If a child asks a question related to sex, parents will respond by offering just a little more information than is specified by the question.

They rely on their own strengths and allow the child to look for a way out of the current situation himself, to solve every task that he can do; even if they themselves can do everything faster and better.

They put virtually no pressure on the child in his school affairs, but are always ready to help if necessary or provide additional information in an area in which the child shows interest.

Give your child time to think and reflect.

Try to communicate regularly with gift experts and parents of gifted children to stay up to date with current information.

Try to develop your child’s abilities in all areas. For example, for an intellectually gifted child, activities aimed at developing creative, communicative, physical and artistic abilities would be very useful

Avoid comparing children to each other.

Give your child the opportunity to find solutions without fear of making mistakes. Help him value his own original thoughts above all and learn from his mistakes.

Encourage good work organization and proper time management.

Encourage initiative. Let your child make their own toys, games and models from whatever materials they have.

Encourage questioning. Help your child find books or other sources of information to get answers to his questions.

Give your child the opportunity to get the most out of life. Encourage hobbies and interests in a wide variety of areas.

Don’t expect your child to show his talent always and in everything.

Be careful when correcting your child. Excessive criticism can stifle creativity and a sense of self-worth.

Find time to bond as a family. Help your child express himself.

Collection topic: Sayings about gifted children. A child is a rational being; he knows well the needs, difficulties and obstacles of his life. J. Korczak

A man, and to some extent a woman, who are not able to fully express themselves in social and professional activities, strive for compensation in the family. And in most cases, their activity in this regard takes on a despotic, selfish character. V. Zubkov

We are all children, the only question is who has what toys.

One father means more than a hundred teachers. D. Herbert

Family is a school of responsibilities based on love and fidelity.

The prosperity of the state and the well-being of the people depend indispensably on the goodness of morals, and the kindness of morals invariably depends on education. N. I. Novikov

Respect is the outpost that protects the father and mother, as well as the child; It saves the former from grief, the latter from remorse. O. Balzac

The first problem of parents is to teach their children how to behave in polite society; the second is to find this decent society. Robert Orben

You should never be an exception. If you live among crazy people, you have to learn to be crazy yourself. Alexandre Dumas the father

Let the child play pranks and play pranks, as long as his pranks and pranks are not harmful and do not bear the imprint of physical and moral cynicism. V. G. Belinsky

Initially, marriage, family is an agreement designed to remain unshakable. But for some reason the points and rules change every day. Brigitte Bordeaux.

An adult cannot live without love. But he learns to endure and tolerates the absence of love like pain. And the old man cannot live without love. But the old man has lived for a long time and has learned to come to terms with it, like a stray dog comes to terms with hunger.

A teacher needs to know life deeply in order to prepare for it. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The subjects that children are taught must be appropriate to their age, otherwise there is a danger that they will develop cleverness, fashionability, and vanity. I. Kant

The main thing in raising children is that they do not notice this.

Do you know what the surest way to make your child unhappy is to teach him not to refuse anything. J.-J. Rousseau

Advice is more than a service. Alexandre Dumas the father

The great secret of education is the ability to ensure that physical and mental exercises always serve as rest - one from the other. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Before you raise a person in someone else, first raise him in yourself

Our educator is our reality. M. Gorky

No matter how respectfully the female half of your family treats you, no matter how much she appreciates your virtues and authority, secretly she always looks at you like an ass and has something like pity for you. Henry Louis Mencken

Thinking in aphorisms is typical for the people. Maxim Gorky

You cannot scare off children with harshness; they only cannot stand lies. L. N. Tolstoy

There are two difficult things in the world - to educate and to manage. I. Kant

Attention, sensation! A boy raised by dogs was found in Lyubertsy! It is interesting that this is the only well-mannered boy in Lyubertsy.

Not every misalliance produces beautiful children. Wilhelm Schwöbel

Love is a luxury. - No. Love is a vital necessity. Laini Taylor "Daughter of Smoke and Bone"

Children are always willing to do something. This is very useful, and therefore not only should it not be interfered with, but measures must be taken to ensure that they always have something to do. Jan Amos Comenius

Keep busy. This is the cheapest medicine on earth - and one of the most effective. Dale Carnegie

Newborns cry the same everywhere. When they grow up, they have different habits. This is the result of upbringing. Sun Tzu

The homeland and parents should come first, then the children and the whole family, and then the rest of the relatives. Marcus Tullius Cicero

The secret of successful parenting lies in respect for the student. R. Emerson

The wise sovereigns of antiquity strictly observed the laws concerning the ruler and subjects, observed the rules concerning superiors and inferiors; they educated the people in accordance with customs, selected talented people and, thus, were always ready for any eventuality. Wu Tzu

You grow up when you forgot your hat and think that you are a sucker and not cool.

The art of being a parent is to sleep when the child is not looking. — American proverb

Over the years, emptiness and disappointment develop in those young people whose childhood and adolescence were a thoughtless satisfaction of their needs. V.A. Sukhomlinsky

Let us work, because work is the father of pleasure. Stendhal

There is no such bad person whom good education could not make better. V. G. Belinsky

By teaching others, we learn ourselves. Seneca the Younger

When you realize that you can't afford to support your family, you've been married for a long time.

Previously: “Hurray! To the dacha with my parents! Now: Hurray! Parents at the dacha!

Many children's games imitate the serious activities of adults. J. Korczak

Children immediately and naturally become accustomed to happiness, because by their very nature they are joy and happiness. V. Hugo

When the word does not hit, then the stick will not help. Socrates

I need to call my mom and tell her where I am. - Hello, mom? Where am I?

Whoever cannot take with affection will not take with severity A.P. Chekhov

Everyone knows how to raise children, except those who have them. Patrick ORourke

Violence will never lead to anything good. M. Luther

No matter how much you educate a person, he still wants to live well. Boris Zamyatin

The family is the basic unit of any society and any civilization. Rabindranath Tagore

One-sided self-sacrifice is an unreliable basis for life together because it offends the other side. John Galsworthy

As a child, Nikolai Valuev set fire to a package, rang the doorbell and did not run away.

That’s how it’s supposed to be: youth has fun, old age scolds. Alexandre Dumas the father

Woman is sacred; the woman you love is doubly sacred. Alexandre Dumas the father

Without good fathers there is no good education, despite all the schools, institutes and boarding houses. N. M. Karamzin

Who is a greater friend than a brother? Sallust (Gaius Sallust Crispus)

A family is a small enterprise that works under government orders and supplies the state with labor and soldiers. N. Kozlov

The wildest foals make the best horses, as long as they are properly raised and ridden. Plutarch

By the name of children they recognize the soul of their parents. Wilhelm Schwöbel

What you do for your parents, expect the same from your children. D. Pittacus - Sayings about gifted children.

You will not stop being a child as long as you have a mother. — S. Jayet

The art of education has the peculiarity that to almost everyone it seems familiar and understandable, and sometimes even easy - and the more understandable and easier it seems, the less a person is familiar with it, theoretically or practically. K. D. Ushinsky