The really bad thing about being precocious or a fast learner is it allows terrible working habits to develop in school - if you can max out the standardised tests by doing almost no work, this develops awful habits for life in general.
Yeah, this is why IMO there should be more project-based work and just move faster and harder for skilled students in general.
Get students to build their own drone with MCUs - so they're forced to overcome challenges and practical trade-offs.
Introduce algebra in primary school, and calculus much earlier - so Green's functions, etc. can be taught in high school to those who want to study mathematics, and they feel what it's like to struggle to master concepts early on.
Hopefully with more of a shift to online courses and AI, this will be possible. Unfortunately the majority of schools just act more like a daycare centre / prison.
"Introduce algebra in primary school, and calculus much earlier"
algebra and calculus is college level century ago, we already bring it on HS level
in some part of the world (Asian country) we already learn it earlier than most of the world but that's not sustainable
Very true. Before working for a company I expected it would be OK or didn't give much thought about it. Meanwhile school was easy and I didn't put anything close to 40 hours per week. Plus the school was close.
The first months working for a company were OK but then I was thinking oh damn I'm going to have to work 40 years like this?
And then after a few years you learn that you can accept the workload but it's not enough to guarantee everything will be OK. In school everything is handed to us, really.
