""I'm not sure what you mean. Johannes Kepler taught geometry class for kids. They had schools then.""

Of course they did, but only for the children of rich people.

The rest were up chimneys, out in the fields, or pinching silk hankies and purses.

Hardly likely to find out, let alone achieve, their potential.

Today, every child with a talent has at least a good chance of utilising it.

Remember that for every Beethoven, Mozart etc, there may have been dozens as good who went unrecognised.

Don T.