El Caribe newspaper tells the story of Benjamin Pe?a, an apparently gifted child who learned to read at four. Little Benjamin’s intelligence has not been tested. He is 11 years old now and in 7th grade because the school would not admit him before he was 6. Pe?a studies at the Centro Educativo Castellalito in Las Galeras, Samana. When asked what he would like to be he said, “a computer engineer.” He gets to play on a computer occasionally at a sports betting store in town. When asked if he would like to be President of the Republic, he responded: “No, no. Because I think to be one you have to be a politician and I do not want to be that. Politicians always forget what they have said and people end up talking bad about them. And I would not like people to talk bad about me and my family.”
