...that you can't communicate effectively unless you can get an entire point across without interruption.
If I need to actually persuade someone, nothing makes more sense than email. With verbal communication, the listener can butt-in whenever they feel like it, and do many things to ultimately conceal my point.
It seems safer to me to send a precocious 8-year-old to college than middle school or high school. Going to middle school at 8 would be suicide for the kid, and high school would be only a little bit better. But I think college students are quite a bit more respectful.
Let's be real: what kind of socializing really goes on in the classrooms of a college? And this is physics we're talking about, not Communications. I'm a math major and I can very easily go a day without speaking to a single classmate if I so desire. Just because we take classes from the school doesn't mean we have to get involved in sports and frat parties.
If I were a parent I would be completely behind my kid going to college at 8, but I would also very strongly encourage the kid to get involved in extra-curricular activies such as baseball with kids his own age.
Being able to immerse yourself in the things you love and not be emotionally abused by sadistic students of the public schools would be an excellent way to build optimism and a strong self-esteem in a kid.
I think we're all a little bit scarred by the public education system, and I don't think it's just a part of growing up.
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...that you can't communicate effectively unless you can get an entire point across without interruption. If I need to actually persuade someone, nothing makes more sense than email. With verbal communication, the listener can butt-in whenever they feel like it, and do many things to ultimately conceal my point.
It seems safer to me to send a precocious 8-year-old to college than middle school or high school. Going to middle school at 8 would be suicide for the kid, and high school would be only a little bit better. But I think college students are quite a bit more respectful. Let's be real: what kind of socializing really goes on in the classrooms of a college? And this is physics we're talking about, not Communications. I'm a math major and I can very easily go a day without speaking to a single classmate if I so desire. Just because we take classes from the school doesn't mean we have to get involved in sports and frat parties. If I were a parent I would be completely behind my kid going to college at 8, but I would also very strongly encourage the kid to get involved in extra-curricular activies such as baseball with kids his own age. Being able to immerse yourself in the things you love and not be emotionally abused by sadistic students of the public schools would be an excellent way to build optimism and a strong self-esteem in a kid. I think we're all a little bit scarred by the public education system, and I don't think it's just a part of growing up.