Every parent thinks their children is 'special' but this very
intelligent family think it's normal 'once you identify the talent of a
child'
Peter and Paula Imafidon, 9-year-old twins from Waltham Forest in
northeast London, are a part of the highest-achieving clan in the
history of Great Britain education.
The two youngest siblings are about to make British history as the
youngest students to ever enter high school
They astounded veteran experts of academia when they became the
youngest to ever pass the University of Cambridge’s advanced
mathematics exam. That’s on top of the fact they have set world records
when they passed the A/AS-level math papers.
Chris Imafidon, their father, said he’s not concerned about his
youngest children’s ability to adapt to secondary school despite their
tender age. “We’re delighted with the progress they have made,” he
said. “Because they are twins they are always able to help and support
each other.”
To Peter and Paula’s parents, this is nothing new. Chris Imafidon said
he and his wife have been through this before: they have other
super-gifted, overachieving children.
Peter and Paula’s sister, Anne-Marie, now 20, holds the world record as
the youngest girl to pass the
A-level computing, when she was just 13. She is now studying at
arguably the most renowned medical school in the United States, Johns
Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
Another sister, Christina, 17, is the youngest student to ever get
accepted and study at an undergraduate institution at any British
university at the tender age of 11.
And Samantha, now age 12, had passed two rigorous high school-level
mathematics and statistics exams at the age of 6, something that her
twin siblings, Peter and Paula, also did.
Chris Imafidon migrated to London from Nigeria in West Africa over 30
years ago. And despite his children’s jaw-dropping, history-making
academic achievements, he denies there is some “genius gene” in his
family. Instead, he credits his children’s success to the Excellence in
Education program for disadvantaged inner-city children.
“Every child is a genius,” he told British reporters. “Once you
identify the talent of a child and put them in the environment that
will nurture that talent, then the sky is the limit. Look at Tiger
Woods or the Williams sisters [Venus and Serena] — they were nurtured.
You can never rule anything out with them. The competition between the
two of them makes them excel in anything they do.”
