"... Encouraging children to aim beyond their means is a very bad idea. They will have very ambitious goals and will not settle for what they consider beneath t

"... Encouraging children to aim beyond their means is a very bad idea. They will have very ambitious goals and will not settle for what they consider beneath them. This is a recipe for unemployment in the vast majority of cases. ..." This idea recognises ability can be tempered by circumstance ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025431 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025431