However, "The issue is not whether a child has natural talent, but how he uses it." Taking his own students as an example, Hsu says that over the years, he has only encountered two child prodigies. Without having to work at it, one of these learned more in six months than most students learn in six years.
然而，「問題不在孩子有沒有天賦，而在他能不能善用」，徐伯年以自己的學生為例，多年來他只教過兩個「天才型」的孩子，其中一個更在短短六個月之內，就輕易超越別人學習六年的成績。