10-Year-Old Scholar Takes California College By Storm
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10-Year-Old Scholar Takes California College By Storm
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#2Downey in the hizzle! I'll hire him as an intern at my startup... if he keeps his grades up.
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#3I think more cases similar to this (ok, maybe not this young, but still) will, or should, happen more in the future. I'm sure there's many opportunities where a kid is actually interested in studies but can't or doesn't go on the "fast track" for various reasons.
One reason, I think, is that kids are expected to play non-productive games all the time. Another is that there's this warped, prevalent perspective that work and play are opposites.
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#4I think more cases similar to this (ok, maybe not this young, but still) will, or should, happen more in the future. I'm sure there's many opportunities where a kid is actually interested in studies but can't or doesn't go on the "fast track" for various reasons. One reason, I think, is that kids are expected to play non-productive games all the time. Another is that there's this warped, prevalent perspective that wo…
At this child's age, it's up to the parents to decide what is best for the child. Sometimes the parents will not make the best decision. Personally I feel that if the child can state the want to study more complex or advanced topics, the child should be allowed to study those topics.
I am a bit biased because I found most of my pre-university studies boring. I also didn't fit in with the other students while I was in middle school and high school.
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#5Maybe pg should have been less negative about the abilities of 10 year olds in his essay.
Of course it's hard to know very much by age 10 if your parents lie to you frequently. But that isn't the child's fault.
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#6Over. Scheduled.
On the flip side I think we should front-load education because kids hardly learn anything from jr. high onward, thanks to the hormone fairy. There are a few exceptions, of course.
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#7"The Myth of Prodigy and Why It Matters" was a presentation done by Malcolm and is a must read. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?...
Gladwell makes the distinction between gifted learners vs. gifted do'ers.
We think of precociousness as an early form of adult achievement, and, according to Gladwell, that concept is much of the problem. “What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.”
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#8Maybe pg should have been less negative about the abilities of 10 year olds in his essay. Of course it's hard to know very much by age 10 if your parents lie to you frequently. But that isn't the child's fault.
It doesn't take much insight to see that this kid's life is hyper-scheduled and regulated by his parents. His Dad is "fretting" that his grade in piano will be bad, because he broke his arm in martial arts? Time to get some perspective, Pop....
Point being, this kid doesn't have the experience to know what he's missing by not being a little boy. Who says that his parents are telling him the truth?
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#9Downey in the hizzle! I'll hire him as an intern at my startup... if he keeps his grades up.
Ouch. Excuse me. I'm just glad to have news stories about Downey that don't involve the house the Carpenters used to live in.
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#10Maybe pg should have been less negative about the abilities of 10 year olds in his essay. Of course it's hard to know very much by age 10 if your parents lie to you frequently. But that isn't the child's fault.
It doesn't take much insight to see that this kid's life is hyper-scheduled and regulated by his parents. His Dad is "fretting" that his grade in piano will be bad, because he broke his arm in martial arts? Time to get some perspective, Pop.... Point being, this kid doesn't have the experience to know what he's missing by not being a little boy. Who says that his parents are telling him the truth?
i didn't.