SPECIAL TRAINING FOR GIFTED URGED

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200430053-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: November 2, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

t approved For Release 2004r/26. Q RDP75-00
SPECIAL TRAIL
.
FOR GIFTED:
Admiral Rickover, Proposes
25 Free Schools to Create
a Brainpower ,
Elite:
j2d-Gear Admiral Hyman
.-
Riek'over, chief of the ;taval re
a rs branch of the Atomic
I~ gy Commission, today ac-
clte American school sys-
Nautilus and Sea wou projects
;suggested radical changes in en-
gineerfng and scientific educa-
He proposed that industry and
tep metTiods e-. United States)
cho"ois.
4dmniral; Rickover Spoke to
Lute here;, q put it bluntly," I
ft, said', 'd'4 schools to' not
of possible in separate ci8sses."
0 per cent of the children. The
brilliant.,"' or the top 2 per cent,
cial attention in current pro,
gram,,he noted.
The admiral's talent: schools
would be on a parr with the best
academic high schools. Tile only
requirement for entrance would
be the ability to pass"eri exami-
nation designed to weed out the
The schools," he said, "would
be staffed by, teacherg; truly
has oo m e o{ is ins' ruc-,
tion in the ji*or and sc?:aior
high schools wbes'e about half l
of 'the rnatlf matics curriculum
ha;; little or no value for the
stt dents.
*-e try to teach too riuc
anyway," he said,
g
,
.
children; teacbet' ` Ilpse qualifi-I
ea united aces seven tar
fields."
t]}g bgat." di e n
noted that Ru
cratic to propose, a cleave-9104, science and all students ri
along lines of natural ability.'; iregardle s,of their individual o
ity who could benefit from itl ers had ' 9q`cli prestige and r
dent of I4ew Yor)c tjn versity, eve yea sr:.ey, have to se ?m
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