This is the modern day celebrity? This country glorifies and makes famous a young girl for being disrespectful to her mother. She is no role model. She is no idol. She is no God. Pay close to attention to what happens next.
People are so annoying. That little boy has been doing his ~thang for a few years now. These people didn't give a shit about little boy's achievements until they wanted to knock this girl down a peg.
also one could reasonably assume that other kid most likely wants to be left alone to do his studies while Danielle is very deliberately courting tons of media attention. And no one is "glorifying" her lol she's essentially a giant joke.
also i don't think having 3 college degrees at 13 is anything a 13 year old should aspire to. While it's an amazing accomplishment for anyone at any age and this kid sounds like a badass, I think that's just ridiculously young and children should have a carefree childhood no matter how brilliant they are.
And besides, as much as I advocate for education for all and studying as much as possible, no ones worth is measured by their academic career.
ia about the super-young scholars, mainly because too great an amount of the social literacy they have to have in order to make their degrees fully worthy has to be learned inorganically through studies rather than through life experience--because their life experiences are so far outside the norms and because they simply haven't been alive long.
I have fewer concerns with this particular kid choosing medical research because it's less important that he has a well-developed social literacy in that field, depending on exactly what kind of research he goes into. But I would not want this kid as my GP or control systems engineer. Nope nope nope. Maturity--and the deeper understanding of social issues that can come with it, and the fact that social issues impact the "pure" issues at hand in one's field--can't be thoroughly learned in a book.
Exactlyyy! You miss out on so much, even if kids around the world have different experiences, a lot of it is common between everyone and it's fundamental in dealing with people and situations later on in life. And while this kid certainly is very gifted, I don't think anyone has reached their emotional maturity and full potential at that age, it's just not possible.
Also you have the rest of your life to work your butt off.
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also i don't think having 3 college degrees at 13 is anything a 13 year old should aspire to. While it's an amazing accomplishment for anyone at any age and this kid sounds like a badass, I think that's just ridiculously young and children should have a carefree childhood no matter how brilliant they are.
And besides, as much as I advocate for education for all and studying as much as possible, no ones worth is measured by their academic career.
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I have fewer concerns with this particular kid choosing medical research because it's less important that he has a well-developed social literacy in that field, depending on exactly what kind of research he goes into. But I would not want this kid as my GP or control systems engineer. Nope nope nope. Maturity--and the deeper understanding of social issues that can come with it, and the fact that social issues impact the "pure" issues at hand in one's field--can't be thoroughly learned in a book.
anyway blah blah I could go on forever about this
ETA an adjective in one sentence
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Also you have the rest of your life to work your butt off.
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