11-year old graduates college

[Reach]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

There are a lot of pretty ignorant or completely disrespectful comments here.

It seems everyone's emotions hit the roof when their intellectual capacity is challenged in some way by someone else.

Take it easy on the guy. It's not like he's all that unique - there are plenty of prodigies out there and people that have done more extreme things than this. An Indian boy named Akrit went to medical school at about the same age as this kid. Michael Kearney had a masters degree in biochemistry by 14.

Kim Ung Yong was doing calculus by age 4 (http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/818...503822ewm9.jpg). This son of a bitch had a Ph.D in physics by 14.


I'm all for something like this if the person has the capacity and it's what they really want to do. A lot of prodigies turn out great and achieve great things in their life time. I think people need to stop hating on many of the people that end up being the ones that lead to discoveries that change all of our lives for the better.

Can someone clue me in to how someone of his age can even get a degree from a university? How the **** did he get admitted with only 5th grade under his belt?

?__?

Why did I have to go through highschool if I could've gone to a university at the age of 11?

It's called skipping grades.

And if people like Michael Kearney or Kim Ung Yong are any indication of the kinds of people that end up skipping 10+ grades, you probably didn't have a ratio IQ of 200-300 when you were little, hence high school. I suppose you could have simply been unidentified and in that case you wasted your time in high school. 8)

Realistically, holding back kids that are mentally beyond their peers (By their own free will - when the parents are forcing the child to do this it's a different issue) can have worse effects on the child than skipping them ahead, so many of the comments about him 'missing out on life' aren't exactly good arguments against this. Someone like Michael, when tested at the age of 4, was already performing at a grade 8 level. What would you achieve by holding him back? I'm sure most high school students in this thread wouldn't want to be sent back to grade 3.


Good things can come of prodigies - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tathagat_Avatar_Tulsi

or http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/20...als_smith.html

Full list - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies

[leonid]

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Yeah stop hating geniuses.

[coraleaterlinda]

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i don't feel smart anymore i need to do something with my life.

[MrRubix]

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Reach: I mainly refer to girls... how do such prodigies reconcile that? I'd imagine, again, that they'd miss out on a lot.

Of course, they can always interact with female peers on their own terms with respect to age, but a lot of it would simply be outside of school. This would already be a pretty big shift.

[Reach]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Reach: I mainly refer to girls... how do such prodigies reconcile that? I'd imagine, again, that they'd miss out on a lot.

Of course, they can always interact with female peers on their own terms with respect to age, but a lot of it would simply be outside of school. This would already be a pretty big shift.

It's a tough situation. On one hand, if you hold them back, they're often bored and begin to resent education and never achieve their potential, as we've learned from studies on prodigies. On the other hand, if you accelerate them, it's true that sometimes it's hard to fit in with your peers and you miss out on a lot of social situations.

As such, it's not an easy decision. If the child really does want to do this on their own though, chances are they aren't interested in many of the social experiences available to them throughout the years, so it doesn't matter anyway.

Also, many prodigies begin to fit in with their older peers over time anyway , and while the age gap might prevent them from say, participating at the bar scene, they can engage in many other different ways.

I mean, what you have to realize is that mentally they're more similar to their older peers than their same age peers, so if size and age are ignored they usually start to fit in. Really, you look for friends that share similar interests to you and have similar intellectual capacities. If you were well above your level, it would be like interacting with grade 6 kids while in high school - you aren't going to fit in regardless of the fact you're the same age.

[A2P]

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That's ignorant as hell. ALL ASIANS ARE SMART LOL WE'RE DUMB O WELL

Stop being mediocre.

Since people don't seem to get it yet.

[Tokzic]

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I think the average IQ of Asian people is 6 points higher than average.

So while there is some foundation for the "omg asians are so smart" stereotype, it's not as if there's a very very large difference between them and the rest of the world.

[Tired_Old_Man]

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Makes me feel pretty unaccomplished.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31128101/

No video games? Wat

I bet it's an asian, oh what? why are stereotypes true. I hate headlines like this. Who really gives a s@#$ what some 11 year old korean kid did? unless he invented pills that make it feel like you're getting a blowjob or cured cancer or carpal tunnel or something.

Maybe now I'm going to hunt him down and kill him and his whole family just because I've have had a hard time with life all these years and screw him for just getting it.

[foilman8805]

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lol you're 26 and still living at your moms

[Tired_Old_Man]

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lol you're 26 and still living at your moms

and you're an extremly unlikeable asshole. I haven't seen my mother in 3 years.

[~HentaiXXX~]

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you're an extremly unlikeable asshole

You just said that you'd kill an 11 year old and his family just because he's more successful than you.

shut the f*ck up

[foilman8805]

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and you're an extremly unlikeable asshole. I haven't seen my mother in 3 years.

Because you've been in your room the whole time.

gg ******

P.S. Chill the **** out. I wasn't being serious. I have no idea if you still live at your mom's, and I really don't care.

P.P.S. I think you should get a new username: Sensitive_Old_Man.

It fits you much, much better.

[Tired_Old_Man]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Because you've been in your room the whole time.

gg ******

P.S. Chill the **** out. I wasn't being serious. I have no idea if you still live at your mom's, and I really don't care.

P.P.S. I think you should get a new username: Sensitive_Old_Man.

It fits you much, much better.

No I honestly lost touch with all of my family years ago, I live in NY with no family and it breaks my heart so effing a right I'm sensitive. You don't even know who I am but I've considered you a total asshole since I first joined the site, gg dude. jackass

[foilman8805]

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Guess what dude...no one on the Internet cares about you either. So boohoo Q_Q you have no family because you lost touch with them - I don't give a ****, and neither does anyone else.

Why can't you be happy for someone else who is taking advantage of their natural ability and the opportunities given them? Why do you have to threaten to kill them? Even if you aren't serious, it's just dumb and inappropriate. You're the unlikeable asshole, and btw, I only pick on people who make themselves targets. You qualified today.

[MrRubix]

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The only thing I hate about most high school education systems is how slow they are. Usually I'd come home and wonder, "WTF did I learn today?" only to realize that the amount I had learned was equivalent to something I could have gotten from a study guide or a book in a few minutes. Sometimes there was nothing new at all. Then again, my high school sucked. Plenty of people at mega-elite high schools like Trinity or Andover or Exeter usually find that their high school experiences far outweighed their college ones.