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| ataradov:
Same will go for lawyers. You would have to work as a paralegal for a few years. And realistically knowledge of math will not help you in either case. Although there is a real-life example of such genius actually getting anywhere is life - Terence Tao. Wikipedia quote: --- Quote --- Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He and Lenhard Ng are the only two children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just nine years old; Tao scored a 760.[9] Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. 10-year-old Tao with Paul Erdős in 1985 At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute. When he was 15, he published his first assistant paper. In 1991, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the age of 16 from Flinders University under Garth Gaudry. In 1992 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study in the United States. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving his PhD at the age of 21.[10] He then (in 1996) joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1999, when he was 24, he was promoted to full professor at UCLA and remains the youngest person ever appointed to that rank by the institution. --- End quote --- But note how it says "attending", not and not actually being enrolled. He is also a really cool person, there are a lot of interviews and recordings of his lectures on YouTube, I can recommend watching them. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: ataradov on July 01, 2018, 07:40:41 am ---Although there is a real-life example of such genius actually getting anywhere is life - Terence Tao. Wikipedia quote: --- Quote --- Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He and Lenhard Ng are the only two children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just nine years old; Tao scored a 760.[9] Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday. 10-year-old Tao with Paul Erdős in 1985 At age 14, Tao attended the Research Science Institute. When he was 15, he published his first assistant paper. In 1991, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the age of 16 from Flinders University under Garth Gaudry. In 1992 he won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postgraduate study in the United States. From 1992 to 1996, Tao was a graduate student at Princeton University under the direction of Elias Stein, receiving his PhD at the age of 21.[10] He then (in 1996) joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1999, when he was 24, he was promoted to full professor at UCLA and remains the youngest person ever appointed to that rank by the institution. --- End quote --- But note how it says "attending", not and not actually being enrolled. --- End quote --- Yes, that's not the same as being enrolled like a full time student. Note the PhD graduation at 21 even with such a brilliant exceptional early start. Ok, that's young for a PhD, but it doesn't make you the miracle wonderkid any more. And that's likely going to be the realistic scenario of this Belgian kid. I actually had a bit of a taste of this early success. I was 17, published, and already qualified in engineering when I got my first professional engineering job. Confused the crap out the recruitment agencies. I can remember being surprised when I turned 18 and they didn't automatically raise my pay. I asked why and they said, you don't work at MacDonalds, you were hired as a professional so it doesn't work like that for you kid. Doh. --- Quote ---He is also a really cool person, there are a lot of interviews and recordings of his lectures on YouTube, I can recommend watching them. --- End quote --- Yes, I've seen a couple of them. |
| Kjelt:
Positive criticism is good but it looks like you all are just not believing because it is outside the standards. IMO the standards are the biggest problem of our schools, they teach the mediocre level esp from age 4-11. There is just one program which means the brainwise less gifted children struggle and the more gifted are bored. I was bored at the last four classes finished assignments in 10 minutes while the teacher gave thirty minutes and it made me a clown spending much time in the hallway. Does that help? No! Other children laughed but did not accept me so it taught me to blend in and in highschool I met the 6s standard ( grades are 1-10 a 6 passes ) which all kids did. I am not a genius by far but it must be hell if you are, bored to death and teachers that have no time to give you fun and challenging tasks. Luckily in our country the split is from age 12 up we select in three or four levels seperating the children in those levels. There is much criticism on that since it literally devides society, however from an education POV it is a good thing IMO. |
| Halcyon:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2018, 07:34:54 am ---but I think it would actually be illegal to a hire a 13yo kid in Australia as a full time employee for example. Maybe would have to do it as a contractor or something. --- End quote --- There is no minimum age (at least in NSW). But it used to be 14 years and 9 months before you could start earning a pay cheque. I know this from experience. I landed my first job at around age 14. All of that work for the first 9 months was purely voluntary. Don't get me wrong, I was working with computers and doing what I loved, so money meant nothing to me at that stage. That has since changed by the looks of it, but some companies have a minimum age stipulated within their own corporate policies, for example, McDonalds won't hire anyone under 14 years of age. |
| Marco:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2018, 07:12:42 am ---Ok, so he's bored and super smart and talented, but the usual thing in those cases is to look at putting them up a year. At what point does the school re-evaluate the kid every few months and decide to give him the proper grade tests and put him up a grade that quickly each time. Seems dodgy to me, and I can't see that happening that fast in a school here in Australia at least. --- End quote --- As I said, I think he was homeschooled (kids still have to take official exams). There's also some Montessori type and gifted schools which don't have fixed grade classes at all. |
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