> Apparently motivation to learn increases with age in my family. "I was friends with one highschooler who constantly showed off his math knowledge. He much pr

> Apparently motivation to learn increases with age in my family. "I was friends with one highschooler who constantly showed off his math knowledge. He much preferred to leave people (many of whom were poor) with the impression that he was superhuman, rather than proactively explaining that his father was a mathematician, his mother taught him at his Montessori grade school, and his family was very well-off..."