Prodigies are of great value to society. It is these people who help society make a breakthrough in science and art. Thinking outside the box, they are able to feel and formulate something that is inaccessible to the ordinary mind, perhaps because they are free from social pressure, from generally accepted common truths.
Ten-year-old Andrey Khlopin from the Krasnodar Territory, who explained the origin of the so-called “noctilucent clouds” that glow at night, can be called a prodigy. This phenomenon was a mystery to scientists for 150 years, and the boy guessed that at high altitude, all moisture turns into ice crystals. They reflect the light. For this scientific hypothesis, the student was entered into the Guinness Book of Records.
Andrey's sixteen-year-old namesake - Andrey Khodursky from Poltava - also went down in history. The teenager developed a unique road lighting system for cars. The World Intellectual Property Organization became interested in his invention: the boy did what the Americans fought over for more than 20 years - his additional headlights increase the illumination of the night road by two and a half times, do not blind oncoming drivers, are suitable for any car and are inexpensive.
Intelligence and creativity are the main national wealth. This has long been understood by the Japanese, who value their gifted children and spare no money for their education and development. Israel has an effective training system for the gifted, and it is a state secret. The United States has created an effective system for encouraging and developing giftedness.
There are many examples of genius in history. Mozart gave concerts at the age of three. Pablo Picasso began to draw long before he began to speak, but at the age of 10 he did not know numbers and the simplest arithmetic operations. The basics of reading, spelling and addition were given to him with great difficulty. But the exam in the senior class of the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, which took others a month, the 14-year-old Pablo passed in one day. The first exhibition of Picasso's works took place in 1897, when he was 16 years old. And just 4 years later, the works of the "blue" period exhibited in Paris made him a world famous artist.
Lev Landau graduated from school at the age of 13, at 19 - the physics department of Leningrad State University, having published 4 scientific papers by that time. At the age of 26 he became a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, and a year later - a professor. In the scientific community, there were legends about the eccentricities of the scientist, and in 1962 he became a Nobel Prize winner.
The director of one of the lyceums for gifted children, Honored Teacher of Russia Tatyana Vladimirovna Khromova, has long been interested in gifted children. And when little Savely Kosenko was brought to her, it was very difficult for him in an ordinary school, she managed to organize training for him according to an individual program. At the age of ten, Savely wrote a textbook on physics, and at the age of ten and two months he graduated from high school and, having entered the university, got into the Guinness Book of Records.
Then another prodigy appeared - Daniil Lantukhov. He successfully graduated from high school and entered the university when he was not even 12 years old. Another girl from the gymnasium at the age of 13 entered the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.
Living in London, 12-year-old Alex Praer, despite his very young age, is already a multiple winner of British vocal competitions - his voice, rare for a child, evokes surprise and admiration among specialists. The English child prodigy gives concerts and performs opera arias, romances and songs in several languages, including Russian. In addition, Alex composes music. His concerto for piano and orchestra has already been recorded on CD. He himself also plays several musical instruments.