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by Spooky23 3355 days ago
That's a thing that always bothers me about these articles.

If the standard of success for a gifted grade school kid is to be a Nobel laureate, that's a little warped.

My grandfather was one of the smartest guys I ever met. Through the circumstances of fate, he couldn't get education beyond the 8th grade. Yet he tutored my mom in calculus and did all sorts of good things for people. By any standard of mine, he lived a long, fruitful and successful life... yet he's a failure in the debate of an article like this.

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