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How Do You Educate a Prodigy?

Posted by samzenpus on from the killing-the-curve dept.

Nethead writes "When he was 8 years old, Gabriel See got a score on the math part of the SAT that would be the envy of most high-school seniors. When he was 10, he worked on T-cell receptor research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He's built a Genomic Lab Liquid Handling System out of Legos. He's studied chaos theory, string theory, quantum mechanics and nuclear science. He's 13 now. How do you fit him into the American school system?"

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  1. Re:Is he ready for the school system? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is he mature enough to sit through a "health" class in college where they tell you to wash your hands after using the bathroom (that really pissed me off)?

    Remind me to never shake your hand.