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14yo Engineering Gradute Gets Job at SpaceX
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on June 15, 2023, 10:12:34 pm ---Arn't child labour laws aimed mainly to ensure the kids education dosnt suffer.if you've finished education with the paper work to prove it then what's the problem
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In many countries he isn't even able to start higher education. You have to sit your ass on that chair and listen to every lecture in a high school.
University is not just about being able to answer the questions in a test.
I'm sure he is a smart kid. The people letting him (and children like him) do this are the dumb ones.
wraper:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on June 15, 2023, 10:24:57 pm ---I'm sure he is a smart kid. The people letting him (and children like him) do this are the dumb ones.
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:palm: If you read an article, he said his soul was dying in school. If such kid is not let to advance, he will be totally disincentivized to do anything. And likely will not even get into higher education as it too often happens with talented kids. They just don't find any need to study in school, but later have a hard awakening because they did not learn how to study. And then their way less talented peers beat them by experience and self discipline skill. Not to say he unlikely would to fit with his classmates anyway, so it achieves nothing but torture.
--- Quote ---I can't believe so many people would want me to be graduating middle school right now," Kairan told USA TODAY Tuesday. "It feels cruel to infantilize my intellectual and emotional needs and demand that I be trapped in a linear environment where the only metric is age.
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--- Quote ---My soul was slowly dying in elementary school," the teen quipped. "I finished third grade though, barely.
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AndyBeez:
:rant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_parenting
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https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-sociologist-zeroes-in-on-what-motivates-tiger-moms
wraper:
--- Quote from: AndyBeez on June 15, 2023, 10:53:46 pm --- :rant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_parenting
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Tiger parenting does not get you to graduate Uni at 14. And frankly if my parents would ever actually push me do things, I would be way more successful and happy. Wasted way too much talent due to procrastination and complacency.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: wraper on June 15, 2023, 10:49:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: tszaboo on June 15, 2023, 10:24:57 pm ---I'm sure he is a smart kid. The people letting him (and children like him) do this are the dumb ones.
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:palm: If you read an article, he said his soul was dying in school. If such kid is not let to advance, he will be totally disincentivized to do anything. And likely will not even get into higher education as it too often happens with talented kids. They just don't find any need to study in school, but later have a hard awakening because they did not learn how to study. And then their way less talented peers beat them by experience and self discipline skill. Not to say he unlikely would to fit with his classmates anyway, so it achieves nothing but torture.
--- Quote ---I can't believe so many people would want me to be graduating middle school right now," Kairan told USA TODAY Tuesday. "It feels cruel to infantilize my intellectual and emotional needs and demand that I be trapped in a linear environment where the only metric is age.
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--- Quote ---My soul was slowly dying in elementary school," the teen quipped. "I finished third grade though, barely.
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I read it, and I don't think I care what he thinks his experience was.
Now we let someone in the workforce, that has no experience in living with the same age people for years and learn their personality. He never shared a beer after a university test. He never had to stand up and motivate other students, his friends after they had a failed test to continue. He is working, but biology doesn't work that way, brain development doesn't stop until the age of 25. How did he pass sports class, when it's set up to have a certain volume of movement over a certain period of time? How did he pass arts?
It's bad enough we don't have military drafts anymore, I think men really lost a very valuable and necessary life experience, and you let this kid to miss out on even more things.
Once again, do you think that the entire education system is set up to memorize some stuff and answer tests? Computers can do that.
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