Awesome. I was going to say I hope they were able to dodge the commie indoctrination but I assume Texas Christian University is devoid of that.
Please stop, I’m Bohr’ed.
I am just guessing but I would bet these two kids haven’t been encumbered by a public school indoctrination.
“She homeschooled Carson until he began eighth grade, at age 5.”
There you go. The commie indoctrination was skipped saving valuable time.
Poor kid....missed his childhood.
He couldn't understand why more parents wouldn't demand that their children be challenged. Why they'd go from expecting a child from managing to make it most of the day not wetting their pants to picking up a thousand word vocabulary and then stop and spend a year learning the difference between colors and how to count and maybe even add and subtract a bit.
What stops a 5 year old from learning long division? The school, usually. Their classmate might only speak Spanish at home, but speaks English in class - why aren't the other students learning a second language? Basic grasps of engineering, chemistry, biology are easily understood by most 8 year olds, but a chapter book is considered their challenge.
And here we were, a class of 9 to 11 year olds, taking a moment from learning Fortran to talk about such things. The most astute observation was “wouldn't the teacher have to know a lot more stuff to do that?”
Later that day we tested our designs to launch an egg on a rocket and return it to earth intact.
We have a multi-trillion dollar education block that depends on children being held back to learn everything by rote and at the same time. Which is really weird when you consider that there's nothing requiring the printed textbook or standardized test anymore.
We've got the world at our fingertips and we lock our children into a room with a teacher who has been drilled into their head exactly what to teach, when to teach it, and how to teach it.
And there's tens of thousands of teachers and educators whom their entire income is tied up into the existing system.
The extraordinary thing is not that what we consider a child can accomplish the tasks for an advanced degree, the extraordinary thing is that so few get the chance.
That’s NOTHING!
I slept through 4 AP tests by the time I was 16!
Judging by the name and the pics, there seems to be a lot of Asian there. I’m not surprised that they’re over achievers. Good for them!
In other news the first journalist ever to pass a logic course finally got his grade (D-) at the age of 74. This sets a stand and proves that journalists, if they really try, can pass a true academic course.
Time will tell. Out of the blocks well, life is a long journey. I hope he learns about the human and spirit part of the world, not just the Physics part of the world.
Sometimes I think that our Fuller Brush man was more equipped to deal with the world than my pHD Physicist father.
Homeschool will be the best way. We let our boys be boys.
Here's hoping the wind is always at your back, the road rises to meet you..............
Dr. Sheldon Cooper, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Interacting with physicians and surgeons of all ranks was a huge part of my job and in my dealings with the "child prodigies"...of which we had many...I found them to be sad,confused individuals....brilliant when discussing the uvula but utterly clueless...sadly so...when it came to "life".
Just sayin'...
How socially adept are they?
But they are not smart enough to acquire voter ID.
/Leftbot