--- title: Matthew Mugo Fields | TIME description: Matthew Mugo Fields is the Founder of GiftedandTalented.com, whose online courses and tutoring services were developed by Stanford University to help more K-12 students become advanced learners. A Harvard-trained educator and entrepreneur, Matthew is committed to improving education through technology and innovation. canonical: https://time.com/author/matthew-mugo-fields/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/matthew-mugo-fields/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Matthew Mugo Fields ## Matthew Mugo Fields Matthew Mugo Fields is the Founder of [GiftedandTalented.com](http://giftedandtalented.com/), whose online courses and tutoring services were developed by Stanford University to help more K-12 students become advanced learners. A Harvard-trained educator and entrepreneur, Matthew is committed to improving education through technology and innovation. ## Matthew Mugo Fields *  Feb 6, 2015 ### [Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students](https://time.com/3698686/gifted-and-talented/) Intelligence should be seen as the end goal, not the starting point [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/matthew-mugo-fields/","name":"Matthew Mugo Fields"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/matthew-mugo-fields/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/matthew-mugo-fields/"},"name":"Matthew Mugo Fields","jobTitle":null,"description":"Matthew Mugo Fields is the Founder of GiftedandTalented.com, whose online courses and tutoring services were developed by Stanford University to help more K-12 students become advanced learners. A Harvard-trained educator and entrepreneur, Matthew is committed to improving education through technology and innovation.","url":"https://time.com/author/matthew-mugo-fields/","sameAs":["https://x.com/MatthewMFields"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```