[thfuran]

>Meaning that if a child studies in Mandarin for 15 years of her life, she could have learned as much as 75 years worth of knowledge

That's the sort of claim that requires extraordinary evidence.

[AnimalMuppet]

Yeah. It assumes that reading bandwidth is the limiting factor in how fast children learn. Not brain development, not actually getting the fundamental concepts; just reading.

I don't buy it at all.