Bright Kids!!
Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French. But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed. Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152. This puts her in the same intellectual league, proportionate to her age, as physicist Stephen Hawking.
I believe intelligence is over-rated these days and any display of above-average mental capacity leaves us all in shock and awe. In a sense, we can not be blamed going by the X-factor and Pop-Idol world we now live in, making celebrities out of airheads like Jade goody and Paris Hilton. If only we stopped and thought about it, the 5% of us who are sky-high in terms of mental capacity are like that due to a very simple trick – constant application. The very way we react to such people gives those in that elite group a false sense of superiority and the rest of us a false sense of inferiority. However, even I accept that this Matilda of a girl is a special case; an IQ of 152 aged 2 is something quite staggering by all means. Not only that but…
She was crawling at five months and walking at nine months. By 14 months, she was getting herself dressed. By 18 months she was having proper conversations,” Mrs Brown said. She would say, ‘Hello I’m Georgia , I’m one’. She was also putting her shoes on and putting them on the right feet.” Georgia was so perceptive that after one outing to the theatre to see Beauty and the Beast she solemnly informed her parents: “I didn’t like Gaston (the villain). He was mean and arrogant.”
Not only could she handle with ease at the age of 2, mental exercises and use words [arrogant] light years ahead of her physical age, physically she is quick as well – crawling, walking, drawing near-perfect circles and putting on her shoes correctly earlier than most of us. Her talents obviously do not lie in the mental realm alone.
All well and good but one thing still worries me about Matilda. I think the same worry lead her mother [Mrs Brown] to contact Professor Joan Freeman – the education psychologist who put her to the Stamford-Binet Test [IQ] where she scored a staggering 152!! Do not even embarrass yourself by dreaming of doing the same. The obvious worry [for me at least] is how all this “talent” will affect her [Matilda] later in life. There are loads of cases of high IQ kids, loosing the plot later in life and that was all I was looking forward to Professor Freeman to throw light on. Considering she is a child prodigy expert, I do not expect her not to be aware of this co-relation. If she is aware at least I didn’t see any studies to that effect on her website!!
I will endeavour to keep myself posted.
