He exhibited an early aptitude for music but had to wait until he was eight, "and I got some strong front teeth", to play the trumpet, which led on to his moving from his Oxford comprehensive school to Chetham's.
Nonprofit leaders should be on the lookout for youths from underrepresented demographics and areas who exhibit leadership aptitude, entrepreneurial potential and philanthropic streaks.
In regular schools, students who exhibit high aptitude in science and math may pursue science and math electives and other opportunities to nurture science giftedness.
Most AGS students have been identified as gifted, and those who take the course on evolution generally exhibit high aptitude and motivation in science.
Mr. Camras exhibited an aptitude for building electrical devices at an early age.
MacFarlane exhibited an aptitude for cartooning at a young age, and he studied animation at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Cale exhibited an aptitude for composition on the viola and the piano, and left Wales to take music courses at the University of London's Goldsmiths College.
Because most AGS students have been identified as gifted, and because the participants exhibited high aptitude and motivation for study in the natural sciences, the sample is not representative of high school students in general.
According to Bloom, a good tutor should exhibit an aptitude-treatment interaction: both groups should learn, and yet the learning gains of the low students should be so much greater than those of the high ones that their performance in the post-test ties with that of the high ones.
Even if this selection is mainly due to being recruited through the university, if we consider that not all patients suffering from schizophrenia exhibit these aptitudes, this could constitute a bias in the selection of the sample.
SEED Academy is pursuing applicants who exhibit a high aptitude in mathematics and/or science, as identified by their teachers, but whose academic potential may not be reflected in their standardized test scores or grades.
