Gifted education not elitist, says pre-school founder
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At the Growing Up Gifted centres in Thomson and Tampines (above), current affairs, economics or science topics are introduced into lessons, and there are no entrance tests for children. The centres' founder believes "all children have potential to have gifts one way or another, in different areas".
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Her pre-schools are named Growing Up Gifted (GUG), but Mrs Deanne Chong-Duffield takes a different approach to the idea of giftedness. For one thing, she is firmly against intelligence tests at a young age.
"An IQ test is like a photograph. You take a picture, and you're set. But you're literally still evolving and growing at such a fast pace," said the founder of two GUG pre-schools in Thomson and Tampines.