Hopefully he has found a balance
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How much experience do you have with homeschooling?
There is no possible way that any parent can force this level of achievement. It is almost impossible to hold back a child who is educated at home. Learning is like breathing. The only thing a parent must do is eliminate the distractions of TV, computer surfing, and video games.
My own children were in college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. All had finished all college general courses and calculus III by the age of 15. Two finished with B.S. degrees at the age o 18. One of these recently finished a masters degree in math at the age of 20.
The oldest took a different path. He majored in accounting. He is a nationally and internationally ranked athlete and has traveled world wide. He also served 2 years for his church in Eastern Europe and now is fluent in Russian. In spite of all this, he will earn an MBA ( accounting) at the same age as his contemporaries.
There is no possible way, for any parent to “push” kids to do the above. They simply can not be stopped.
Unlike the child in this article my children are merely normally bright. They are likely not any smarter that any of the kids of the posters on this board. It is the institutionalized child who is artificially retarded in their educational and social development.
True. The brighter kids in public school who resist the retardation are made to pay in other ways. Bullies serve the same function in public schools as rapists do in prisons -- cowed, humiliated, and beaten inmates are easier to manage, less likely to think for themselves, less likely to escape. See Ayn Rand's gruesome essay The Comparchicos of the Mind, in her Anti-Industrial Revolution.
There's an understatement if I ever heard one.
When my daughter wanted to go to the National Spelling Bee, I couldn't stop her from studying, but try to get her to do something she doesn't have her heart set on? Might as well try to move Mt. Everest.
BTW, she did go.