In another thread in a DIR I mentioned meeting a person who seemed to have it ... this not easily described thing.
Back in teacherhood days there would be some story read from some basal reader we'd have, and I'd ask, "Why do you think the author even wrote this story? What attitude change might he/she be trying to achieve in the reader, if any?" 23 kids in the class would have this dumbstruck look of 'Why couldn't he just ask what page comes after 85?" The other two kids would quickly raise their hands, with the look of 'Finally!" and then the three of us would have a five minute elevated discussion, while some of the others listened, while others stared out the window or started fiddling.
So ... if you've encountered this, what was the event, and what exactly impressed you in the other person? BTW, the child in the other thread I talked about was questioning Boss about why the chemistry questions on yesterday's test were testing English rather than chemistry by making the wording unnecessarily complicated. Boss's reply was "Are they still doing that?"
I'm interested in raw intelligence stories.
Back in teacherhood days there would be some story read from some basal reader we'd have, and I'd ask, "Why do you think the author even wrote this story? What attitude change might he/she be trying to achieve in the reader, if any?" 23 kids in the class would have this dumbstruck look of 'Why couldn't he just ask what page comes after 85?" The other two kids would quickly raise their hands, with the look of 'Finally!" and then the three of us would have a five minute elevated discussion, while some of the others listened, while others stared out the window or started fiddling.
So ... if you've encountered this, what was the event, and what exactly impressed you in the other person? BTW, the child in the other thread I talked about was questioning Boss about why the chemistry questions on yesterday's test were testing English rather than chemistry by making the wording unnecessarily complicated. Boss's reply was "Are they still doing that?"
I'm interested in raw intelligence stories.