Youth Talent School is a nonprofit supplementary education program located in 45 New Ocean Street, Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA. As a supplementary education program,It was founded in the Spring of 2004.
The school offers a large selection of classes for children from 18 months to 18 years of age who speak the Russian language. This effectively excludes children of African American, Hispanic, Anglo or Asian descent. The various subjects taught at 'YTS' include graphical and performing arts, mathematics, music, chess, languages, gymnastics, and more. Youth Talent School also offers preparatory classes for English and mathematics SAT.
The goal of the program is to give Russian speaking children and youth an opportunity to explore new horizons, excel in school, develop leadership and social skills and become confident and accomplished individuals.
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“We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as to lame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It’s a rare parent who can see his or her child clearly and objectively. At a school board meeting I attended . . . the only definition of a gifted child on which everyone in the audience could agree was “mine.””
—Jane Adams (20th century)