03-09-2017, 08:23 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
Know many women that play chess? There's not that many comedians either as a whole. I guess you can't grasp basic statistics then? That doesn't surprise me given your daily posts around here.
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this story comes up often in textbooks on the development of skill and expertise. kind of a bizarre way to test a theory on learning... but he was committed for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A...B3_Polg%C3%A1r
"In 1965 Polgár "conducted an epistolary courtship with a Ukrainian foreign language teacher named Klara." In his letters, he outlined the pedagogical project he had in mind. In reading those biographies, he had "identified a common theme?early and intensive specialization in a particular subject." Certain that "he could turn any healthy child into a prodigy," he "needed a wife willing to jump on board."
He and Klara married in the USSR, whereupon she moved to Hungary to be with him.
They had three daughters together, whom Polgár home-schooled, primarily in chess but also in Esperanto, German, Russian, English, and high-level math.[4][5] Polgár and his wife considered various possible subjects in which to drill their children, "including mathematics and foreign languages," but they settled on chess. "We could do the same thing with any subject, if you start early, spend lots of time and give great love to that one subject," Klara later explained. "But we chose chess. Chess is very objective and easy to measure."[3] Susan described chess as having been her own choice: "Yes, he could have put us in any field, but it was I who chose chess as a four-year-old.... I liked the chessmen; they were toys for me."[6]
The experiment began in 1970 "with a simple premise: that any child has the innate capacity to become a genius in any chosen field,..."
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