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| Echo88:
If the story of the film A Beautiful Mind were written by Ataradov then Matt Damon would prepare his janitor-ass to do PE and analyze Jane Eyre, instead of solving math equations that nobody can solve. :-DD |
| ataradov:
--- Quote from: Echo88 on July 01, 2018, 10:06:10 pm ---If the story of the film A Beautiful Mind were written by Ataradov then Matt Damon would prepare his janitor-ass to do PE and analyze Jane Eyre, instead of solving math equations that nobody can solve. :-DD --- End quote --- A Beautiful Mind has Russell Crowe in it. You are thinning about Good Will Hunting. And it was at the university, I'm ok with not having PE there. Actually I'm ok with not having PE anywhere. I'm not ok with claiming that you have graduated the school without actually doing everything other students did. This lowers their achievement. |
| NiHaoMike:
When I was in college, the PE classes for non majors (anyone who does not major in PE or a closely related field) are about a basic understanding of the subject and physically doing well at it is barely considered in the grade - for example, in weightlifting, knowing how to do it safely and correctly is far more important than being able to lift really large amounts of weight. |
| Rick Law:
Even assuming everything is good and he goes to college at 8... Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski), a mathematics prodigy and a killer, went to Harvard at 16. At 25, he became the youngest assistant professor at UC Berkeley. He was not emotionally ready for college. It is widely believe that it was his feeling out of place that he became an outcast. A couple of years after Berkeley, he moved to live in the mountain like a hermit, make just enough to live on and to build bombs. In his dozen or so attacks, 3 deaths (I think). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski It takes more than just knowledge to go to college. It takes emotional maturity as well. |
| Kjelt:
As if one bad example would be significant for the whole group, I think there are more terrorists without extreme high iq that never made university before age 10 ;) |
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