Talents should be encouraged, and given room to grow – but how to achieve this in a fair way given the different strengths people (children and adults) have?
One option I’ve never heard of having been explored might be genuine “centers of excellence” with a small number of handpicked teachers, and resources for the top flight teaching of the Arts, Sports, Maths, Economics, History, Geography, Science, Literature and so on. The twist would be that class sizes may never go about 20, that each lesson type is half a day to a day long, and critically, that only the very best students *in that specific ability* from the surrounding 50km school intake area are chosen.
This might mean that some children only attend one class per week, while others potentially commute there every day.