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| maginnovision:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 14, 2019, 04:28:27 am --- --- Quote from: maginnovision on November 14, 2019, 04:08:48 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on November 12, 2019, 11:18:50 pm ---In related news, Huxley will be going to Kindergarten next year, he'll be the youngest in the year by several months. Majority of kids will be 12 to 22 months older. Sagan, born the same month, was the 2nd or 3rd youngest. Seems that everyone is holding their kids back now so they'll be "smarter" than the other kids. --- End quote --- That's interesting, my 4 year old wasn't eligible to start school for being too young. My son will be the same since he was born only a month(and 2 years) later. What is the minimum age there? --- End quote --- https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/enrol-nsw-public-primary-school --- Quote ---You can enrol your child in kindergarten at the beginning of the school year if they turn 5 on or before 31 July of that year. They must be enrolled by their sixth birthday. --- End quote --- So if your kids 4yo and born on 31st July, they could be going to Kindergarten with 6yo kids born in Feb, so 20 months potential difference. Like I said, was common when I was kid to go as soon as you could. Then for Sagan (now 8yo) it was fairly rare. Now with Huxley, even with him being born in May, he will be the youngest in the entire year by almost two months. It's very "trendy" now to hold your kids back a year so they can be "smarter" than the younger kids. --- End quote --- Got it, pretty much the same here(5 by september 2). Since their birthdays are early in the year(february and march or may), which makes them just too young, they'll start when they're only a few months from being 6 years old. Seems late to me but I think it'd be the same thing there. That is an odd trend to basically wait a year. For most of my schooling I was a couple years younger than classmates so I'd think being the oldest would make you feel stupid, not smart. Nobody wants to leave grade school at 19 years old. |
| edy:
Imagine such a genius prodigy "Doogie Houser" type becoming a brilliant doctor at a young age and saving your life. Let's for the sake of argument say he has no bedside manner... do you really care if he ends up saving your arse? Are we to be so disappointed if a kid is brilliant at coding and electronics and invents the next greatest billion dollar company, but has developed minimally in other "soft" areas? Who cares? How much time do we "waste" in school learning stuff that will never even remotely be applied. I'm not saying we should ignore the value of getting a broad-based diverse education... there are plenty of advantages for people who can "bridge" ideas between varying disciplines and create innovation. But if a kid knows the basics (enough to pass University entrance exams for specific area of study) then let him or her keep learning as much as they want. Their psychological health may or may not be correlated... it is up to parents, teachers and whoever is involved in this child's life to monitor their mental health and make sure they are not getting too stressed or burning out and keep them balanced and psychologically stable. |
| jesuscf:
--- Quote from: m98 on November 13, 2019, 11:30:14 am --- --- Quote from: Augustus on November 12, 2019, 09:52:03 pm ---Nine months later... He'll graduate as an electrical engineer at age 9... :scared: https://interestingengineering.com/first-9-year-old-to-graduate-from-university --- End quote --- How is it even possible to cram a whole EE degree into 9 month? No mandatory labs, projects, dated assignments, presentations, etc.? How could he even sign up for every single exam in one or two exam periods? --- End quote --- Bingo! Maybe a close scrutiny of the 'Electrical Engineering' degree offered by the Eindhoven University of Technology is in order here. I have been trying to find the syllabus of some of their Electrical Engineering courses, but nothing so far. |
| Kjelt:
It is not uncommon to get exemptions / dispensations if you can proof you already have the knowledge gathered. Since he already had university level math knowledge and other sciences he probably had plenty of those. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Kjelt on November 17, 2019, 05:21:20 pm ---It is not uncommon to get exemptions / dispensations if you can proof you already have the knowledge gathered. Since he already had university level math knowledge and other sciences he probably had plenty of those. --- End quote --- True. And if the little boy managed to get exemptions for this at his young age, unless he benefited from special treatment, it's clearly even more exceptional than him just getting such a degree, which was already pretty amazing by itself. |
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