Semi-serious question; how come you never hear of a 10 year old math prodigy where someone stopped them at age 4 and said "ah, ah, ah I refuse to tell you anyth

Semi-serious question; how come you never hear of a 10 year old math prodigy where someone stopped them at age 4 and said "ah, ah, ah I refuse to tell you anything about math until you've decided what you want to learn specifically and what you are going to use it for", yet it's everywhere on the internet, multiple times in every thread on all kinds of topics? Yes, I know why people think it's a great comment, what I want to know is given how many of us learned about computers as children before we had any idea about functional programming or Turing machines, how do we get recommendation threads to move away from this?