Educators are urged to encourage gifted/talented students to teach themselves foreign languages. This essay discusses the lack of language requirements in schools, linguistic insensitivity or laziness shown by Americans, individuals' linguistic potential, goals of multilingual development, the appropriate time to introduce foreign languages, and…

Discusses how hard it is to define the gifted child and the difficulty of enriching and extending gifted children in the areas of reading and writing. Recommends starting the gifted sooner or accelerating them more quickly through a program, among other strategies. (NKA)