<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:28 PM, John Grigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com" target="_blank">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div dir="ltr">An ambitious prodigy....  I suppose genetic engineering will in time allow parents to select for a child with such precocious intelligence...<br><div><br><br><a href="http://college.usatoday.com/2015/05/22/11-year-old-graduates-college-with-3-degrees/" target="_blank">http://college.usatoday.com/2015/05/22/11-year-old-graduates-college-with-3-degrees/</a><span class="HOEnZb"></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1) Major asterisk next to this.  One of the three he got was in math, and two in science (including one "math and general science"), despite not yet having finished Calculus.  And these were just Associate's degrees.  Still impressive, just not as much as it may seem at first.<br><br></div><div>2) What if we revamped and compressed the educational system such that this level of learning became the norm, or at least much less unusual, without need of genetic engineering?  (Or, of course, combined both approaches...)<br></div></div></div></div>