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Eh, the kind of immersion and tutoring that rich parents can buy doesn’t remotely compare to having two professional mathematicians as parents. The tutors for
by kevinventullo 4y ago
Eh, the kind of immersion and tutoring that rich parents can buy doesn’t remotely compare to having two professional mathematicians as parents.
The tutors for rich kids are likely to be local grad students who meet with the kids at most a few hours a week; you can’t exactly hire a fields medalist for tutoring. Perhaps more importantly, those rich kids are not getting singular training in math, they’re getting tutored in a gazillion things so they can be “well-rounded”. Also, those kids are not likely to develop the intrinsic motivation to do this stuff because their parents are still the ones instilling values in them. Those values are going to be “go to law school” or “start a business” or “pursue the arts” or some other avatar of “make as much money/social capital as possible”. Those values are likely not going to be “study math and prove theorems because it’s interesting”.
- _zoltan_ 4y agoI bet you could hire a Fields medalist with enough money. Might be a lot, but for sure you can. Everybody has a price.
- lern_too_spel 4y agoAnd if you did, you would surely get results. That isn't really happening at any sort of scale today. Compare to Alexander the Great, who was tutored by Aristotle himself.