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Am I the Genius?

Teachers, Have you ever had a REAL GENIUS in class?

Am I the Genius?

youtube.com/@amithegenius

Self-improvement, Education

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

Educators, have you ever had a real genius in class? What made him or her so smart? When I was

0:07.4

student teaching, I had a work-study gig at a wraparound program in my city. It was half-tutoring,

0:13.5

half-day care for students that needed a place to go between that time when school ended,

0:17.7

but before their parents got home. While it was mostly populated by middle and high school

0:22.2

students, there were a handful of very young children as well, five to six years old. One very little girl.

0:28.2

She couldn't have been older than six, was probably five, approached me with a box of chess.

0:33.1

She didn't know how to play, but said her father played and she wanted to learn how. I'm not a

0:38.5

chess expert, but I've played a good amount of times and read a few books, and I can beat my

0:42.6

friends or a hard computer. To clarify that, I'm talking about the hard setting on my phone.

0:48.2

It's about 1500 ELO. I'm somewhere above that, but probably not by much. I met with this little girl for about 30 minutes every day.

0:56.0

In two days, she understood all the rules and could play competently.

1:00.0

At the end of the week, she tied the game in a stalemate.

1:03.0

At the end of the second week, I never won again.

1:06.0

Turns out she was the daughter of a professor at my college, and he was an internationally ranked chess player.

1:11.4

When I ran into him, he couldn't thank me enough for teaching his daughter chess,

1:14.9

as his wife had issued a decree that he wasn't allowed to teach or play or mention chess around

1:19.8

their daughter. Understandable, didn't want to pressure her or discourage her. Chess was in

1:24.4

these people's genes, man. I teach a university-level writing course for people who typically aren't in writing

1:30.6

heavy majors, math, science, etc.

1:33.2

It's hard to make a 100 in a writing course for anyone,

1:36.2

because even great writers do something wrong in papers sometimes.

1:39.6

A missing citation, argument could be more nuanced,

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