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It's disappointing that a long article talking about economic class race and gifted children completely ignored Asian kids just days after another mathematical
by xiaoma 11y ago
It's disappointing that a long article talking about economic class race and gifted children completely ignored Asian kids just days after another mathematical breakthrough from Terrence Tao was reported. (An Erdos problem people and more recently machines have been unsuccessfully attacking since the 1930s) http://www.nature.com/news/maths-whizz-solves-a-master-s-riddle-1.18441 http://www.nature.com/news/maths-whizz-solves-a-master-s-rid...
How many kids like he was simply have their curiosity crushed in today's schools? For that matter it's hard to say how much flexibility public schools would have shown him even a couple of decades ago if he'd been growing up in the US instead of Australia.