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Belgian boy Laurent Simons heads off to university aged 8.
ataradov:
--- Quote from: Kjelt on June 30, 2018, 10:07:25 pm ---Why would he burn out when he does what he loves and has an interest in.
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Because interests change. Many people burn out even if they do what they like.
--- Quote from: Kjelt on June 30, 2018, 10:07:25 pm ---they don't care as long as he is happy
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Let's hope so.
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: ataradov on June 30, 2018, 10:03:37 pm --- And then when in 5-10 years he burns out, there will be no fallback option.
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Yes, burn out is a real issue, but, now we know better and with the proper balance and attitude, it can be avoided.
On the other side, parents who super push their super young child prodigies talents, like those you violinist/pianists, purely for immediate fame and profit will almost certainly create a guaranteed burn-out situation.
Kjelt:
No problem he is 8 where normal kids would have been 18 so he already won 10 years not sitting in school benches, enough time to pursue other interests :)
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: ataradov on June 30, 2018, 10:03:37 pm ---And then when in 5-10 years he burns out, there will be no fallback option.
We can't expect schools to only produce Mozarts, and leaving everyone who is not genius behind smells of eugenics.
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Better than burning out now due to lacking the challenge he desires. Slowing down children who don't need it can be very damaging. As has been described in this thread, being forced to pursue something at a gratingly menial pace is a great way of taking all the fun out of subjects
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: Kjelt on June 30, 2018, 10:05:03 pm --- The reason I am for a broad education is to let students experience those skills/sciences/languages and find out what they are good in or really like. But should that take 6 years?
Around me I hear more and more graduates from secondary school that have no clue what to study next or which job they like.
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This is an interesting point. I grew up wanting to know how thing worked and was pretty much assured to head into electronics. At the time in the 70s in Montreal, electronics and computers wasn't seen as a profitable endevour. My parents thought electrician, crap. Become a doctor or lawyer. (I sort of wish being born and living in or close to Silicon Valley, this attitude would have not existed there...) It took until the late 80s and 90s before they can accept that there was some value to consumer electronics and home computers and that there is money to be made there.
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