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My experience teaching high school kids was just the opposite. Quite a few will stay with a problem long after most so-called "prudent" adults have moved on. A
by johnohara 4y ago
My experience teaching high school kids was just the opposite. Quite a few will stay with a problem long after most so-called "prudent" adults have moved on.
As adults, we forget that 17 year olds are still living their lives in a world of what they don't know, not in what they know. And once they do know they can be very insistent about being right. Because, it's all they know.
It's also how a team of 16-17 yr olds can somehow manage to win when the odds are completely against them. All they know is what they want to see happen. And they will keep trying until they succeed, the clock runs out, or the other team makes it painfully obvious by completely routing them.
- callumprentice 4y agoInteresting, thank you. My assertion was based on my own 17 year old self, my peers at that time as well as people that age now. Sounds like the opposite could be true. I find that quite heartening.
- mhh__ 4y agoIt's a somewhat common joke in physics departments to compute something up to (say) N=3 then say "Well if we were undergraduate students we might compute this up to N=100"
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- LilBytes 4y ago"My experience teaching high school kids was just the opposite. Quite a few will stay with a problem long after most so-called "prudent" adults have moved on." Honestly I've made a career of this but I never got close to building a novel engine as a kid, I was too busy wanting to play C+C or breaking through my parents tea collection, trying to smoke them and calculating if there was a high or how much it caused me to cough.