Well, it can be done, but......
I stopped going to school after 7th grade. I had no tutors and no structured homeschool program. Got a GED when I decided I wanted to go to university, and I am now in my final undergrad semester at Georgia Tech and about to begin grad school in an engineering program.
Getting in would have been a problem, but I sort of worked my way from a small college, to an engineering transfer program, to Tech. I took the SATs around the time when everyone else does and got about 1430/1600 (old scale). That was my ticket in. I'll admit I am a special case.... I actually spent 3 of my 7 years of public school (skipped 4th grade) in gifted programs. So, I believe this way worked out for me OK, but if I hadn't seen the prospect of going to highschool as an utter waste of time I could have benefited from some of the structure (and support--math can be a bitch with no one to turn to for help... and this was just before the internet really started maturing). I could have been done with school by now, but I wouldn't have learned as much.
I think the decisive point for me was a schoolwide poll in my final year, something like- "Would you rather be wise or popular?" Guess what 95% chose. I just didn't feel that public school (in the absence of accelerated programs) was a place of learning. I think the phrase "high-priced gov't daycare castles" is most fitting. I do feel that I missed out on some opportunities, but I received many others. Most importantly, maybe, a singular sense of individuality and self-reliance.
But, for this "unschooling" to work out really well, you must have a passion for learning. Or some sort of driving force to keep you on task.
The charge carriers are still electrons. Oxygen vacancy migration tunes the distance the electrons must tunnel. At the extremely small scale where memristance becomes dominant, the speed of ion diffusion seems negligible.
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Not at all a "spoiled, arrogant, silver-spoon trustfund latchkey kid," but that sounds like a bunch of garbage to me.
Well, it can be done, but...... I stopped going to school after 7th grade. I had no tutors and no structured homeschool program. Got a GED when I decided I wanted to go to university, and I am now in my final undergrad semester at Georgia Tech and about to begin grad school in an engineering program. Getting in would have been a problem, but I sort of worked my way from a small college, to an engineering transfer program, to Tech. I took the SATs around the time when everyone else does and got about 1430/1600 (old scale). That was my ticket in. I'll admit I am a special case.... I actually spent 3 of my 7 years of public school (skipped 4th grade) in gifted programs. So, I believe this way worked out for me OK, but if I hadn't seen the prospect of going to highschool as an utter waste of time I could have benefited from some of the structure (and support--math can be a bitch with no one to turn to for help... and this was just before the internet really started maturing). I could have been done with school by now, but I wouldn't have learned as much. I think the decisive point for me was a schoolwide poll in my final year, something like- "Would you rather be wise or popular?" Guess what 95% chose. I just didn't feel that public school (in the absence of accelerated programs) was a place of learning. I think the phrase "high-priced gov't daycare castles" is most fitting. I do feel that I missed out on some opportunities, but I received many others. Most importantly, maybe, a singular sense of individuality and self-reliance. But, for this "unschooling" to work out really well, you must have a passion for learning. Or some sort of driving force to keep you on task.
The charge carriers are still electrons. Oxygen vacancy migration tunes the distance the electrons must tunnel. At the extremely small scale where memristance becomes dominant, the speed of ion diffusion seems negligible.