Genius School: Portraits of Extraordinary Kids in 1940s New York

Photo from a public "genius school" for 3-to-11-year-olds at New York's Hunter College, 1948.
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Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

In the late 1940s, LIFE photographer Nina Leen visited a "genius school" in New York City — a school filled with 450 apparently well-adjusted, engaged kids who just happened to enjoy stratospheric IQs. Read More

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