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I think in a few decades people will be looking back at the obsession over achievement and academics as something weird. People learn and achieve in different p
by buboard 7y ago
I think in a few decades people will be looking back at the obsession over achievement and academics as something weird. People learn and achieve in different paces, and, assuming a lifetime of continuous opportunity for learning (as we have today), the metrics of specific ages are obsolete things.
- Kaveren 7y agoeven if everyone could have all their bills paid for them so they could learn all day at any age, it's ludicrous to suggest this would "obsolete" the discussion of how to treat intelligent kids in relation to others. also fluid intelligence declines over time so it is absolutely in society's interest to identify talent and assist it as early as possible.
- buboard 7y agowhat if intelligence becomes something that "can be cured"