“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
Salvador Dali
Breaking eggs
I spoke at a TEDx event in Norwich a few years back, about how the education system often fails to recognise and support youngsters with exceptionally high IQ.
From my window, I can see the place where I lived in 1968
From the room where I now write, I can see across the road the place I lived more than 50 years ago. It’s strange to be back where I grew up.
I discovered learning late in life
You could say I was a late developer. I did not go to university until I was 64, and having now experienced student life, am very tempted to return to do a PhD.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw