Timing Talent: Early Investment, Late Bloomers and the Economics of Gifted Education

Timing Talent: Early Investment, Late Bloomers and the Economics of Gifted Education

Educational systems often resemble investors who scan a crowded market and place their capital on the stocks that rise first. Some talents surge early, compounding rapidly and rewarding timely investment. Others, however, are like undervalued assets — quiet at first, gaining strength only when the surrounding conditions shift. A system that judges too quickly risks mistaking early momentum for permanent worth. Ability does not grow in isolation.…