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Up-voted for courageously (and beautifully) expressing a potentially unpopular opinion. Stay strong - it is hard not to feel guilty when other kids in kindergar
by jazzyk 11y ago
Up-voted for courageously (and beautifully) expressing a potentially unpopular opinion. Stay strong - it is hard not to feel guilty when other kids in kindergarten can seemingly write essays and do calculus, but in the end, it does not matter as much as it may appear to. And sometimes putting so much pressure may have unintended consequences. I know a few kids from affluent families in my town where their "early prodigies" are now college drop-outs.
- thearn4 11y agoMany early achievers burn out once they enter an environment where they are no longer the smartest person in the room all of the time.
- contingencies 11y agoI don't know, I think "burn out" is a somewhat loaded term. Personally during either secondary and (much later) tertiary education I simply found it hard to maintain interest in a dubiously presented, dry, fixed syllabus that was executed at the speed of the slowest person in the room by teachers with thousand-mile lecture stares. It was always clear to me that learning something by rote was not an effective use of time... the initial comprehension and applications were the only interesting portions. Thus, I turned to self-directed computing. When I finally went to college, I received a scholarship in the first semester, took a year overseas, then never returned. I'd like to study more, but feel the pedagogy is too alien to deliver solid results (in terms of time efficiency) versus competing life opportunities.
- whatsup 11y agoSad that offering a differing opinion is considered courageous.