--- --- # Why There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 26, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 26, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**There’s no such thing as a gifted child.**](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/25/no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child-einstein-iq) By Wendy Berliner in the _Guardian_ **2\.** [**Without the internet, tractors or phones, here’s how Amish produce gets to Whole Foods.**](http://newfoodeconomy.com/how-amish-farmers-whole-foods/) By Karen Gardner in _New Food Economy_ **3\.** [**Stressed out at work? Try video games.**](https://www.hfes.org//Web/DetailNews.aspx?Id=441) By the _Human Factors and Ergonomics Society_ **4\.** [**Researchers are hunting for new antibiotics in the world’s filthiest places.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/could-the-answer-to-our-most-urgent-health-crisis-be-found-on-a-toilet-seat/528687/) By Maryn McKenna in the _Atlantic_ **5\.** [**Mid-tier public universities are engines of upward mobility in the U.S. We need to save them.**](https://qz.com/1037128/these-universities-are-the-americas-engines-of-upward-mobility-and-theyre-sputtering/) By Gwynn Guilford in _Quartz_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Why There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4874048/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4874048/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/"},"headline":"Why There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child","datePublished":"2017-07-26T16:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:39.278Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4874048/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Video Games","antibiotics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","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":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4874048/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/","name":"Why There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child"}}]}] ```