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The question “Are all geniuses infant prodigies?” has in it all the attractions of glamour, scholarship, and interdisciplinary studies. It is not the focus of discussion in this essay. Not that attractive questions are objectionable: on the contrary, I deem only attractive questions worthwhile, and studies concerning. Seemingly unattractive questions are greatly improved, I propose, when their proponents try to make their attractiveness as conspicuous as possible.
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Swartz, R., Richmond, S. (2014). The Myth of the Young Genius. In: Swartz, R., Richmond, S. (eds) The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-626-4_3
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