Maurice Freehill, in Gifted Children: Their Psychology And Education (1961), proposes the following prescription for the education of the nation's elite:

1. Programs should be organized around unit topics, projects or study themes.

2. Lessons should be organized around a problem or purpose.

3. Encouragement of side issues which develop incidental and concomitant learning should be given.

4. Special emphasis should be placed on the tools of workshop learning.

5. Informal classrooms should see reference works used more frequently than textbooks.

6. An increasing awareness of his or her own learning process should be developed in the learner.

7. Some student involvement should exist in the planning of what is studied or at least in deciding what is expected to be learned.

8. All students should participate in periodic evaluations.

9. Students should be asked to create summaries of their learning which require rearrangement and coming to conclusions as opposed to reiteration...