By Paula Olszewski-Kubilius. Many gifted children acquire expert levels of knowledge and perform at a high level in their area. But, only a very few will become eminent in adulthood and produce groundbreaking work in their field, the kind of work that earns them a place in history and significantly alters the domain that they work in. A major issue for the field of gifted education is why so few highly gifted children grow up to be renowned and creative producers.