Hothousing (education)

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Hothousing is a controversial form of education for children, involving intense study of a topic in order to stimulate the child's mind.

Advocates of the practice claim that it is essential for the brightest to flourish intellectually, while critics claim that it does more harm than good and can lead a child to abandon the area studied under such a scheme later in life.

[edit] Persons who underwent hothousing

• Sufiah Yusof
• Gordon Brown

[edit] External links

• Hothousing Young Children: Implications for Early Childhood Policy and Practice by Tynette W. Hills, published by ERIC Educational Reports - article urging parents to be cautious about hothousing
• Child prodigies `damaged for life by hothousing' - article by Judith Judd from Independent (London)