The Sign of a Smart Kid Education

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The Sign of a Smart Kid Education these days seems to be about signals. What's a real sign of a smart person? Curiosity is one as we've talked about. So are other things, things kids have actually done made Creed thrown themselves into. The biographer Merle Miller noticed that Harry Truman mispronounced a large number of words which puzzled him at first.

Education these days seems to be about signals. What did you get on your SATs? How many AP classes did you take? What schools did you apply to? What extracurriculars did you practice? Even some of the modern strain of political correctness, critics have said, is really just a way for people to prove that they are more educated than other people–that they were taught the right words for this and that.

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