The child prodigy diagnosed the education system and his ambitious father.

Yesterday, I learned from the media that a classmate of a nine-year-old student-prodigy of Moscow State University, Alice Teplyakova, doubted the "honesty" of the situation in relation to other students.

According to the student, Alice attends classes with her father and would hardly be able to cope with her studies without him. The young man said that in the classroom, the girl asks questions off-topic and does not fulfill the teacher's requests. He also suggested that Alice's father during her studies will "do all the main work on finding and" chewing "educational material," and Alice will only have to "absorb the ready-made information and pass exams."

The student stressed that in this case, the classmates of the child prodigy may have a question: "isn't Alice just an "appendage" of her father <...> and how honest is this situation with respect to other students?"

In addition to the subject-scientific intelligence of the child, there is a so-called social intelligence. This is his ability to feel other people, experiences, emotions. Based on this, it can be effective when communicating in society. So, if a child at the age of 9 will study together with students, then, of course, it is impossible at all. His social intelligence is still very low.

Alice Teplyakova diagnosed the school education system, because she was able to bypass it by cramming or, roughly speaking, training. Despite the fact that, according to her father, the training takes place exclusively in the format of a game without a rigid framework, the knowledge gained cannot be called mature.

Teachers know that there is such knowledge that is expressed simply in words, signs. But there is also knowledge at the level of persuasion, knowledge that is tested in the process of being able to solve practical problems in life. After all, there is also creativity. I'm sure there's probably a problem with that.

The story of Alice Teplyakova diagnosed not only the education system, but also ambitious parents. By such upbringing, parents express an inferiority complex. If a child shows talent in his studies, of course, he should be encouraged and periodically raise the bar, but at the same time it is necessary to maintain a balance between classes and social life. It is very simple to achieve such harmony: you need to love the child and not use it in solving your psychological problems.

Associate Professor of the Institute of Psychology and Education of KFU, Candidate of Psychological Sciences Ramil Garifullin