Very accurate wrt the narcissism. So much of this attitude of "raising children to rule the world" (literally, the claim of the article, which I found ludicrous

Very accurate wrt the narcissism. So much of this attitude of "raising children to rule the world" (literally, the claim of the article, which I found ludicrous) is to flatter the parents and educators. Same for children who are good at sports. Does anyone stop to wonder what it does to a child to spend their whole lives training e.g. in a pool? How much pain does it cause to people who have to live up to such expectations, when all they can do, their entire lives, is fail? I was one of those gifted children; both my parents are extraordinarily smart and I was years ahead of my peers in reading and maths. I'm happy no-one paid much attention and I was left to my own devices. Maybe I didn't become a billionaire, or go to Stanford at sixteen, yet I was mostly happy, most of my life, and every time I accomplished anything I was grateful and happily surprised. And I don't think it was a wasted life at all. Leading society? What an arrogance. Let kids be, give them open access to knowledge and freedom to learn from others, and structure where they need it. Leave the "raising geniuses" to totalitarian regimes.