31. He grew up a focused, gifted child whose orderliness stood out even in a family that prides itself on organization. 32. Rasch argued that it's totally normal for parents to want to develop the gifted child 's skills, to develop their opportunities. 33. Or did this gifted child inspire sympathy, seeming one of the Zurich gnomes in the presence of the 6-foot-3-inch Davenport? 34. In the early 1960s, he was director of the gifted child project at the New York City Board of Education. 35. He conceived the book as a sort of case study following on Alice Miller's " Drama of the Gifted Child ." 36. "He was like an encyclopedia of animals, " says his mother, Emily Tarazi . " He was a gifted child ." 37. Extra state funding-- about $ 832 a year per gifted child -- buys special field trips, smaller classes and high-tech teaching tools. 38. She was a gifted child from an early age and reportedly had her first vision of the Virgin Mary at age 4. 39. People's Exhibit A : San Diego's Courtney Hall, once an official " Gifted Child , " as identified by the state of California. 40. "Every child is a gifted child , " he once said, perhaps in reference to a remembered second-grader with a poor report card.
