It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q, ' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

Doris Lessing
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Dr. Benjamin Spock, who was born on this day in 1903, believes that the best way to nurture a child's talents is to recognize and nurture them as such. The problem with such a system is that it assumes that all children are created equal. This is not the case.

Society allows for this inequality because it values certain kinds of intelligence above others. If Dr. Spock was correct, the only way to truly benefit from our gifts is to nurture them instead of placing a monetary value on them.

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