Starting From the Beginning: On Building A School And Community-Based System Supporting The Gifted

Special education for the gifted has become necessary when more countries and societies have "joined the club" not only as believers in compulsory education but also as actively practicing it. This process has been accelerated with the increasing population strata understanding the importance of basic and post-elementary education, and showing willingness to postpone the financial benefit of the younger generation joining the work force. The result has been the rewarding of the more educated socially and politically, in addition to the increasing salary gap between the more and the less educated. At this point it was made clear that the time of special education for the more able has come.