The concept of genius and of gifts has become part of our folk culture,
and attitudes are ambivalent towards them. We envy the gifted and
mistrust them. In the mythology of giftedness, it is popularly believed
that if people are talented in one area, they must be defective in
another, that intellectuals are impractical, that prodigies burn too
brightly too soon and burn out, that gifted people are eccentric, that
they are physical weaklings, that there's a thin line between genius and
madness, that genius runs in families, that the gifted are so clever
they don't need special help, that giftedness is the same as having a
high IQ, that some races are more intelligent or musical or mathematical
than others, that genius goes unrecognised and unrewarded, that
adversity makes men wise or that people with gifts have a responsibility
to use them. Language has been enriched with such terms as 'highbrow',
'egghead', 'blue-stocking', 'wiseacre', 'know-all', 'boffin' and, for
many, 'intellectual' is a term of denigration.
1. Below are listed some popular beliefs about genius and giftedness.
请选择 1 个答案
A. Truly gifted people are talented in all areas.
B. The talents of geniuses are soon exhausted.
C. Gifted people should use their gifts.
D. A genius appears once in every generation.
E. Genius can be easily destroyed by discouragement.