That makes sense because getting into top uni like SNU is hard enough as it is. I was wondering how a dropout was able to pull it off. Nautral talent plus hardwork and good mentoring was all in there.
It probably helps a lot to grow in an academic household, seems his dad was a stats professor and his mom a linguistic one, his informal math education growing up and work discipline must have been way above average. I bet he was a straight A math student.
> I was wondering how a dropout was able to pull it off. Nautral talent plus hardwork and good mentoring was all in there.
"Formal education" is just industrialized mentoring and compelled hard work. Dropouts and "uneducated" people built the world. If you work hard and have good mentors, you can do anything, whether it's in a school or not.
(While I am vehemently opposed to the modern method of education, I don't think that formal education in a classroom setting is inherently bad, nor do I think most people today have the social support, intellect, or temperament necessary to drop out and still be successful.)