1:0 Identifying the Gifted: · Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. · Isaac Newton did poorly in school · When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything. · F W Woolworth got a job in a dry good store when he was 21. but his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he “Didn’t have enough sense”. · A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had “No good ideas.” · Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. · Verner Von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra. · Admiral Richard E Byrd had been retired from the navy as “Unfit for service.” But he flew over both the poles thereafter. · Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended College. · Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade. 2:0 Recognizing the characteristics of Gifted Children: Eric Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children (1985) cites three types