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AN 11-year-old schoolboy has joined Mensa after scoring higher than Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Albert Einstein in an IQ test.
Ramarni Wilfred started showing signs of genius as a toddler, when his favourite book was an encyclopedia.
He could read and write by the time he started reception at school and last year, at the age of 10 and still in primary school, wrote a philosophy paper on fairness that earned him a 2:1 and a mock Oxford graduation.
When his reception class wanted to move him up a year, mum Anthea objected, wanting him to grow up with other kids his age.
Prof. Hawking, Microsoft founder Gates and Einstein all have 160 IQs. Ramarni scored 162, putting him in the top 1% in the UK.
Anthea, 37, said: “He’s still just a little boy doing normal childhood stuff. While he reads the New Scientist and the Sky at Night, he still plays with his dog, watches the Disney Channel and reads comics.
“Mensa allows him to talk and be with other people as clever as he is for the things that go over my head.
“He doesn’t think it’s a big deal. I love his humility and I love having my own personal walking, talking dictionary/thesaurus/calculator!”
Ramarni, who will be starting Year 8 at secondary school next month, harbours hopes of one day studying at Oxford and becoming an astrophysicist.
The modest youngster, from Romford, Essex, said: “I can’t begin to compare myself to these great men whose hard work clearly proves that they are true geniuses.
“This is a great opportunity and I think it can open a lot of doors for me. But I also believe that having a high IQ isn’t that important unless you do something really special with it.”
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Sem inteligência não temos hipóteses de sobrevivência. Mas só com muita inocência podemos achar que num Mundo tão violento e escuro, bastará inteligência. Isto para não dizer que a inteligência de cada um é a primeira adversária da felicidade individual. Mesmo assim, tudo pesado, prefeririam um Mundo com gente cada vez mais burra ou com gente cada vez mais inteligente? Devemos ter medo da inteligência? De fazer perguntas? Eu por mim escolho sorrir quando vejo as novas gerações a fazer algo mais do que dar chutos numa bola ou a passar o dia todo a ver televisão. Devíamos valorizar mais a inteligência dos mais pequenos nas escolas, trabalhá-la, potenciá-la com livros, estudos, viagens, diálogo, referências éticas. Por falar nisso, onde é que nos tem levado o caminho de sermos o País Europeu com maior consumo diário de televisão per capita?
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