ABSTRACT
This chapter follows two different but interrelated pedagogical foci. By exploring Lajos Posa's personal and professional life, as well as his pedagogical views, the chapter shows how coherent, efficient and outstanding pedagogical systems are constructed and operated by someone without formal pedagogical training, while pointing out an inadequacy in talent pedagogy research, establishing that studying the fundamental characteristics of gifted children and the programmes aimed at their development must be supplemented by the study of the personal and professional characteristics of the educators. It introduces all the important theoretical and practical aspects of Posa's gifted math education activity in detail, especially his gifted math education camps. By these, the chapter presents perhaps one of the most important elements of the Hungarian gifted education model and its historical roots, including the internationally influential model developed by Tamás Varga in the 1960s.
