Some people think intelligent students should be educated together with other students. Do you agree?试试准吗？

It is not uncommon for talented students to get admitted to gifted programs today.

Letting talented students take special courses makes sense to some extent. They need a more challenging curriculum as they are fast learners and their learning process requires little repetition of the information that has been taught by the teacher. If they find the curriculum too easy for them to handle, these intelligent children will end up learning little or nothing at all. As a matter of fact, many students who are unattentive in class are intelligent ones. Regular courses simply fil to attract their attention.

Then from a purely psychological point of view, intelligent students also feel more comfortable if there are separate classes for them. They would feel isolated and become oversensitive if they spent all their class time with their ordinary peers. This is often true because smart children not only have different learning patterns, their communication patterns tend to be different from those of the ordinary students as well.

Still, it should be pointed out that segregating intelligent student from their peers is not without its own downside. Some educators believe such classes will be drained of students who take regular courses that their work is not as valued as the intellligent students’, which will lower the average students’ self-esteem.

Overall, Iwould suggest that gifted students spend their class time with their peers. But in addition to that, they should be encouraged to take electives that challenge them mentally.