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🗓️ 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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