A
child prodigy is what is normally seen as a precoscious child who has a talent in a particular area. Examples of which include
Mozart and
Bobby Fischer. The idea of finding child prodigies is to make them able to exploit their talent in later life.
However there is a school of thought which says that most children have talent and by calling one child in a hundred a prodigy you are exploiting the rest.
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