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by JumpCrisscross 227 days ago
> Highly intelligent kids at 18 are ready for the real world

Highly-intelligent, disciplined kids should go to college. Others should go to trades, including coding and sales.

More pointedly, we live in a democracy. A population ignorant of the classics, of history, of the law, and only obsessed with personal practical concerns is going to do what such populations always do: swing populist and burn down any institution they don't understand because what isn't instantly comprehensible is obviously the work of the devil.