[babebridou]

Be careful, it's more of an accelerated natural selection than a school.

The postulate of 42 is that talented people will acquire this fundamental knowledge no matter what, and that non-talented people will simply drop out of school. The big idea is to make sure that people with a gift for programming, no matter where they come from or what they did before, become highly productive and achievement-driven. The rest better pack up and go do something else.

That's also one of the reasons why the school is free. Dropping out and failing should be as quick and painless as possible for both the school and the student.