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<a href="/">FindArticles</a> > <a href="/p/articles/mi_m1189">Saturday Evening Post</a> > <a href="/p/articles/mi_m1189/is_n3_v268">May-June, 1996</a> > <a href="/p/articles/mi_m1189/is_n3_v268/ai_18221757">Article</a> > Print friendly
Letting Michael be Michael … a 12-year-old with 4 Guinness records - gifted child Michael Kevin Kearney - includes related information on scholarship presentation
Tom Tozer"Your child will be developmentally slow," doctors told Cassidy Kearney when she was...
...The Kearneys call Michael a prodigy, rather than a genius. A genius, they say, is an individual who creates a whole new area of human endeavor or knowledge - Einstein, for example. A prodigy is a child who performs in an adult field at an adult level.
"Since Michael has not yet contributed anything to the sum of human knowledge," Kevin says, "he's not a genius."
Contemplating Michael's potential on one level, yet not grasping it at all, leaves one wondering just when and how his genius might manifest itself and affect all of humankind.
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