Armin Opherden deals in his novel with very smart people
"This will be determined later, once a professor," says the senior citizen with a critical view of the stroller. Of Anthony is only a few months old, but already the "intellectual eye" that interpret the people around him as giftedness.
Four Anton years can already write the first words and classify traffic signs. As a school child, he is bored because his classmates are still cramming the basics, while he deals with complex mathematical formulas. And yet he finds himself 30 years later, not in the classroom before his students again, but on the sofa next to his wife - made from packed working day of a clerk.
As the protagonist "Anton was not a professor" from the novel it wash many people, says author Armin Opherden. The Monheim wants to sharpen its reader's eyes to the subject of giftedness. Because that was already confined to him early. So much so that the IT project manager at a telecommunications company sat down and wrote his 156-page novel.
"It's a shame that the potential of these people are not exploited. The company is so valuable, something lost, "says the 46-year-old. Blame is the school system, which was set "only on the average." "Nerds on both ends have a hard time."
story is fictional, but there are parallels to the author
Opherden speaks from experience. Although the story was "pure fiction", parallels between him and Anton, there is real. He was shunned in his school by classmates was because he "was different". "Children can express the very brutal," he says. Today, he also saw in the context of his two daughters (19 and 23 years old) potential, which would be overlooked by teachers.
"Teachers too are the victims of the school system. It lacks the capacity to respond individually to students. "Ground clearance give it in the classrooms. "Even if the whole thing purely economic terms, the state makes a big mistake: Several thousand people could be more successful structure, thus the economy," says Opherden.
Monheim was the best example of that young people would be underestimated: On the road Opladen have recently heard that the city "now been ruled by children" would be - a dig at the 27-year-old Mayor Daniel Zimmermann. "Such an attitude I can understand just not."
would Opladen Where can land with the appropriate funding? "Neuroscience has always interested me," he says. "But I'm not complaining. . I have a great family and I feel comfortable in my job, "At his request, he still holds: the gifted need to be promoted. "The offer may not from the purse of the parents . Depend "
Author: By Ines Arnold
Source: http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/kreis-mettmann/monheim/scheitern-eines-hochbegabten-1.571842
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