[fsckboy]

> In an ideal world that's true, but a lot of really bright kids wind up becoming educationally restless, and fall into traps of not seeking higher education because of how slow it is.

in our real world, most of the people making cutting edge breakthroughs in math and science were gifted kids who got a great education through graduate school.

[brewdad]

True though some ended up underemployed as patent clerks along their journey to the cutting edge. In an ideal world, those years would have never been "lost".

[Runeite51]

ah, the youth tax