Without special programming, schools provide the academic equivalent of Zoo Chow, food that requires no effort whatsoever. Some children refuse to take in such uninteresting, dead nourishment at all. To develop not just the physical ability but also the strategy to catch antelope in the wild, a cheetah must have antelopes to chase, room to chase them and a cheetah role model to show them how to do it. Without instruction and practice they are unlikely to be able to learn essential survival skills. A recent nature documentary about cheetahs in lion country showed a curious fact of life in the wild.
Lions kill cheetah cubs.
They don't eat them, they just kill them. No one knows. We only know that lions do it. Highly gifted children and their families often feel like cheetahs in lion country. Brilliant children may feel surrounded by lions who make fun of or shun them for their differences, who may even break their legs or drug them to keep them moving more slowly, in time with the lions' pace.