paris writes to tell us that The Korea Herald is running a story about Song Yoo-guen, the youngest university student that Korea has ever seen. At eight years old Song is already talking about building flying cars and defying Newton's law of gravity while others his age are attending the first grade. He completed his elementary, junior-high, and high school curricula in just nine months, something that usually takes 12 years, and has been admitted as a freshman to the physics department of Inha University.Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_xp1='';Ads_yp1='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_prf='page=article';Ads_channels='RON_P6_IMU';Ads_wrd='ed,news';Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_sec=0; Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College Log in/Create an Account | Top | 600 comments (Spill at 50!) | Index Only | Search Discussion Display Options Threshold: -1: 600 comments 0: 591 comments 1: 435 comments 2: 277 comments 3: 79 comments 4: 40 comments 5: 34 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. (1) | 2 Flying cars are nice but.. by Adult film producer (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:40AMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by tkittel (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @03:48AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Flying cars are nice but.. by Mistshadow2k4 (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @04:38AMString theory and cars? by lasindi (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:07AMRe:String theory and cars? by Haydn Fenton (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @09:59AMRe:String theory and cars? by Impy the Impiuos Imp (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @07:16AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Flying cars are nice but.. by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @10:56AMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by AzureLunatic (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @07:17PMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by Impy the Impiuos Imp (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @07:13AMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by Mike Savior (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @07:57AMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by corvair2k1 (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @09:31AMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by VagaStorm (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @12:20PMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by Kadin2048 (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @01:36PMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by adamjaskie (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @02:21PMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by shawb (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:54PMRe:Flying cars are nice but.. by menegator (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @12:26PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.4 replies beneath your current threshold. Pointless (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06, @03:40AM (#13961695) He's so nerdy that he won't be getting laid at all in college. [ Reply to ThisDoogie Howser, PhD by Anonymous Coward (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:43AMRe:Pointless by ravenspear (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:43AMRe:Pointless by Mingco (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:37AMRe:Pointless by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:18AMRe:Pointless by loucura! (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:18AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Pointless by cp.tar (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:27AMRe:Pointless by wsxyz (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @08:43AMRe:Pointless by niteice (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @02:28PMRe:Pointless by cp.tar (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @07:08PMRe:Pointless by The One and Only (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:35PMRe:Pointless by jnf (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @11:41PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Pointless by Ex-MislTech (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:32AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.1 reply beneath your current threshold.Prediction: by StarKruzr (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:23AMRe:Prediction: by chrome (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:55AMRe:Prediction: by nollaigoc (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:30AMRe:Prediction: by xSauronx (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @07:54AMRe:Prediction: by Foobar of Borg (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @11:34AMRe:Prediction: by adamjaskie (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @02:27PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Pointless by Spacejock (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @07:28AMRe:Pointless by ash.connor (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @08:55AMRe:Pointless by Dumbush (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @09:55AMRe:Pointless by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @10:37AM OK I give up (Score:5, Funny) by guardiangod (880192) on Sunday November 06, @03:41AM (#13961700) He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum mechanics.Oh my god, to think that a 7 years old best me when it comes to learning the good old Schrodinger equation...Someone please bury me. [ Reply to This Re:OK I give up (Score:4, Insightful) by tct25 (615976) <newspaperman.gmail@com> on Sunday November 06, @03:45AM (#13961713) (http://english.ohmynews.com/) Hang on, explaining or regurgitating what his parents told him? All this smacks of publicity stunt... both for the anxious parents (it'll help junior in our hyper-competitive society) and a middling Korean university (at best). [ Reply to This | ParentRe:OK I give up by Lucractius (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:03AMRe:OK I give up by Kadin2048 (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @01:48PM Re:OK I give up (Score:5, Insightful) by servognome (738846) on Sunday November 06, @05:30AM (#13961975) It's a good point, the difference between intelligence and wisdom. It's relatively easy to learn something, even Schrodinger's equation. It's far more difficult to try and explain the implications, or to formulate your own perspective. Breakthroughs in knowledge come from experience and creating your own version of the universe, not what is taught. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:OK I give up by KrackHouse (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @11:24AMRe:OK I give up by servognome (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:01PMRe:OK I give up by abradsn (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:31PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Re:OK I give up (Score:5, Interesting) by SnowZero (92219) on Sunday November 06, @07:05AM (#13962193) (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbruce) and a middling Korean universityProdigies usually attend universities near home, so that they can still live with their family. The quality of the school is secondary, as they can always move on later if they outgrow it. My university won't even let students live on campus below a certain age, and they probably aren't socially ready for it anyway. One of my best friends from undergrad started taking classes at 12 and entered as a freshman at 14. She wasn't allowed to live on campus until sophomore year.In a way, I'm glad to not be in that category, as its quite difficult for such students. Their intelligence at school is well advanced of their social development, and nobody treats them normally anyway. Our society is set up so that things only line up for regular people. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:OK I give up by saskboy (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @11:20AMThe alternative is worse by Kadin2048 (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @02:11PMRe:The alternative is worse by ConceptJunkie (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:15PMRe:The alternative is worse by abradsn (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:36PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:The alternative is worse by gordo3000 (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:41PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Re:OK I give up (Score:5, Insightful) by crmartin (98227) on Sunday November 06, @09:45AM (#13962651) I *was* one of those 8 year olds in college. Feel a little sorry for him, 'cause he's caught in a hard place: as someone else observed, he will stand out and have to deal with all sorts of issues in his college as a result; on the other hand, it's not like he can have anything like a normal life in a normal school, either.But if his experience is anything like mine, he's *not* regurgitating --- which if you think about it woulldn't work anyway. (Think about the Chinese Room Problem.) If he can "regurgitate" well enough to read what he needs to read, answer questions, and pass tests, how is that *different* from having "really" learned it? [ Reply to This | ParentRe:OK I give up by Viper168 (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @11:27AMRe:OK I give up by Skreems (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @12:13PMRe:OK I give up by crmartin (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:28PMRe:OK I give up by arodland (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:56PMRe:OK I give up by crmartin (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:06PMRe:OK I give up by Skreems (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @11:34PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:OK I give up by Goldsmith (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @12:50PMRe:OK I give up by crmartin (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:47PMRe:OK I give up by Phleg (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @12:54PMRe:OK I give up by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @01:02PMRe:OK I give up by crmartin (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:49PMRe:OK I give up by TheDracle (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @02:15PMRe:OK I give up by crmartin (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:41PM Re:OK I give up (Score:5, Insightful) by colmore (56499) on Sunday November 06, @03:09PM (#13964296) (Last Journal: Tuesday December 09, @02:47AM) You know, I had a chance to start College at age 14, not quite 8, but still. I'm really glad I didn't take it.Sure, highschool sucked. But highschool sucked for a whole lotta people. I read a lot on my own time, and I don't think humanity was deprived of any potential fruits of my intellect while I was spending my efforts avoiding football games and vainly attempting to figure out how to talk to girls.When I started college at the normal age, I had a blast and did well academically.I remember reading an article about what prodigies were up to 20 years later (looking at what happened to a bunch of kids who'd gone into college before puberty, which apparently there was a rash of in the 70s) and none of them were doing anything *that* earth-shaking. All smart men and women, sure, but no nobel prizes.Think of it this way: You're a professor starting a new research project. Which early PhD student do you want to be your research assistant, the 24 year old with an apartment and a settled life, or some kid who'se just started the roughest years of puberty? They both have the same amount of education, and the kid is way more impressive *for his age* but what the hell do you care about someone being impressive for their age? You want work to get done. I really suspect this kind of thing happens more to stoke parental egos than anything else. It just doesn't make that much sense to get so far off of the clock that your society expects of you.There are a whole lot of square pegs out there, and the standard education system is nothing but round holes. Some parents give their kids pills or push them onto the chearleading team in order to make them round pegs. Some parents look around frantically for square holes for their precious square pegs. I personally am a big believer in the value of spending a few years getting whacked in the head by a hammer as society tries to cram you down the damn round hole. The adult world isn't that much different, and you learn to deal with it without developing a massive ego or the belief that nothing is right if it doesn't feel like a special magical little cradle created just for unique little you. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:OK I give up by crmartin (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:33PMRe:OK I give up by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:18PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:OK I give up by Ibag (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:50PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.the hardest thing in science by reversible physicist (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @11:15AM60 minute interview with young 3 year old painter by zymano (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @12:53PMRe:OK I give up by jZnat (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @02:01PMRe:OK I give up by jellomizer (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @08:16AMRe:OK I give up by skraps (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @10:08AM2 replies beneath your current threshold.Re:OK I give up by Mathiasdm (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @03:52AMRe:OK I give up by div_B (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:47AMRe:OK I give up by JaxWeb (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @08:41AMRe:OK I give up by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:17AMRe:OK I give up by Foobar of Borg (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @11:41AMRe:OK I give up by magarity (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @01:35PMRe:OK I give up by jacksonj04 (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @06:58AMRe:OK I give up by JPriest (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @08:45AM[OT] Ate the cat, possibly by kanweg (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:16AMRe:OK I give up by Infinityis (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @12:15PMRe:OK I give up by xclay (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @05:39PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Blow Job (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06, @03:42AM (#13961702) Did he get a blow job when he graduated high school? I did. If you grow up too quickly you'll miss the best things in life! [ Reply to This Re:Blow Job (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06, @03:53AM (#13961746) Did you really have to tell us what your mother gave you as a graduation present? [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Blow Job (Score:5, Funny) by Hognoxious (631665) on Sunday November 06, @05:33AM (#13961989) (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Slashdot | Last Journal: Wednesday June 23, @12:34PM) It's no secret - she gives the same to everyone. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Blow Job by thej1nx (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @10:24AMRe:Blow Job by SillySnake (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @11:15AMRe:Blow Job by born_to_live_forever (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:25AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Blow Job by polaralex (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @01:40PMRe:Blow Job by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:20AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.happy for him by sontek (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:42AMRe:happy for him by erbmjw (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @03:52AMRe:happy for him by HappyEngineer (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:55AMRe:happy for him by cdn-programmer (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:34AMRe:happy for him by Lucractius (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:06AMRe:happy for him by jZnat (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @02:07PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:happy for him by Charcharodon (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:23AMDoh! by Charcharodon (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:25AMRe:happy for him by Kadin2048 (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @02:35PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:happy for him by tavilach (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @04:32AMRe:happy for him by Skreems (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @12:19PMRe:happy for him by tavilach (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @02:20PMRe:happy for him by XchristX (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @05:25AM2 replies beneath your current threshold.ah well by Triv (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:43AM Re:ah well (Score:5, Insightful) by MoonFog (586818) on Sunday November 06, @03:52AM (#13961738) (http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 06, @06:10AM) Is this worse than drafting or buying a very young sportsman? Whether you play soccer in the English Premier League at the age of 16 or you get a PhD at the age of 16 you will not be able to grow up in the same way as others, but with that kind of talent comes certain issues. If they hold him back and force him to "be his age", it will most likely severly hurt his intellectual growth. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:ah well by RoboPimp_3000 (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @04:08AMRe:ah well by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:25AMRe:ah well by gordo3000 (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:02PMRe:ah well by Locke03 (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @07:04PMRe:ah well by elakazal (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @10:35AMRe:ah well by hopethisnickisnottak (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @12:18PMRe:ah well by globalar (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @01:33PMRe:ah well by ElVaquero (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @02:42PM Re:ah well (Score:4, Insightful) by HappyEngineer (888000) on Sunday November 06, @04:06AM (#13961788) (http://knowlist.com/) Why do so many people think it's so awesome to be a kid? Being a kid sucks! Life doesn't get good until you get into college. It sounds to me like this kid is skipping the crappy parts of growing up. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:ah well by mlush (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @05:32AMRe:ah well by HappyEngineer (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @05:43AMRe:ah well by Bullseye_blam (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @09:53AMRe:ah well by jrcamp (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @11:49AM Re:ah well (Score:5, Insightful) by paul248 (536459) on Sunday November 06, @07:03AM (#13962189) (http://paul248.tk/) Earth has billions of people on it. Is it really a problem if a few take an uncommon path? His childhood won't be "better" or "worse" than yours, just different. [ Reply to This | Parent Re:ah well (Score:5, Insightful) by RedBear (207369) <redbear&redbearnet,com> on Sunday November 06, @08:50AM (#13962457) (http://www.redbearnet.com/) So much for letting the kid grow up.I really wish I could fathom why this kind of crap gets modded +5, Insightful. WTF does that comment even mean? You think you know these people? Do you know the kid personally? Do you know the parents? Do you know the society? You think you know the best way to raise such a unique human being, if he is indeed that unique?But know, I'm sure you're right. What they should have done was give him a lobotomy so he could grow up with his "peers" and have a "normal" childhood wasting twelve years of his life learning how to "socialize". Because God knows socializing is infinitely more important than challenging yourself and using your given abilities to their fullest.Honestly, what is wrong with so many people that makes them want to tear the kid down and force the parents to push him through the same mold as everyone else? If he passed all the damn tests for the lower grades legitimately what exactly is wrong with letting him (letting, not forcing) further his education in order to work toward his dreams? Yeah, an 8-year-old going to college is going to have a difficult time learning about "life", but as far as I can tell learning about real life is hard no matter what path you walk. As long as he has a good support system and really is super-intelligent he should do just as well as any of us. What is with this subtle (or not so subtle) show of disgust as if he is being used or mistreated somehow, and this seeming urge to stuff the kid back in the box marked "NORMAL CHILD"?I for one am excited by what this says about the potential for human intelligence, if it turns out to be for real and not just some publicity stunt or fluke of eiditic memory or something. It's really an amazing thing. And I'm so irritated when I think about all the students in this country who could have been done with school within a few years if they hadn't been chained to the almost completely inflexible modern school system, where doing your time seems to be more important than learning anything or challenging yourself to find your potential abilities.Give the kid a break. He'll either be able to hack it or he won't, and he's either a bonafide super-genius or he isn't. The truth will come in due time, either way. It's not your problem, and it's not your place to be judging people halfway around the world based on one little article. I suppose you'll all be pissed off again when CERN hires him right after he gets his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at age 10-1/2. How awful. Poor kid. What a horrible thing it would be for his dream to come true. Gack. Give ME a break, and get off the high horse(s). [ Reply to This | ParentRe:ah well by Skreems (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @12:27PMRe:ah well by GlenRaphael (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @02:59PMRe:ah well by JASegler (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:02PMRe:ah well by ahodgson (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:05PMRe:ah well by Skreems (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @11:25PMRe:ah well by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @01:22PMRe:ah well by Cyn (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:02PMRe:ah well by elakazal (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @05:51PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.6 replies beneath your current threshold.Annoying by rm999 (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @03:43AMRe:Annoying by norkakn (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @03:54AMRe:Annoying by QuantumG (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:00AMRe:Wolfram = CRANK! by QuantumG (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:10PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Re:Annoying (Score:5, Interesting) by arvindn (542080) on Sunday November 06, @04:06AM (#13961789) (http://www.livejournal.com/users/arvindn/ | Last Journal: Monday June 16, @12:39AM) I'm from India, and we have kids doing this a lot back there, especially in math. I once talked to a math professor who's met some of these kids and who actually knows what he's talking about, and he says most of the time they are not even remotely qualified to be enter university, even though they might be somewhat precocious. Usually the parents make the kid do it because they are publicity whores, and the university plays along for the same reason. [ Reply to This | ParentFortunately (maybe).. by utenaslashed (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @06:43AMRe:Annoying by Anonymous Coward (Score:3) Sunday November 06, @09:34AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Annoying by Dogun (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:15AMRe:Annoying by ebyrob (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:23AM Re:Annoying (Score:5, Informative) by addie (470476) on Sunday November 06, @04:18AM (#13961819) As an English teacher in Korea, I can assure you that this isn't unusual. Most of my students go to school from 8 am to 8 pm every day, and come home to study. Missing out on developing social skills and never learning how to have fun is the norm, rather than the exception. That aside, you're absolutely right that putting this child in University is not at all the best thing for him. Until Korea's voracious appetite for over-education calms, there will only be more of this. Someday they'll notice a correlation between time spent learning/working to their suicide rate.That said, many schools are phasing out school on Saturday over the next two to three years. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Annoying by students (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @07:30AMwho will notice? by FlippyTheSkillsaw (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @02:02PMRe:Annoying by ebyrob (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:28AMRe:Annoying by bundaegi (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:33AMRe:Annoying by Xugumad (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @11:02AMRe:Annoying by HappyEngineer (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @02:27PMRe:Annoying by bundaegi (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @08:07PMRe:Annoying by HappyEngineer (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @09:05PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.3 replies beneath your current threshold. Re:Annoying (Score:5, Insightful) by cdn-programmer (468978) <terr@noSPaM.terralogic.net> on Sunday November 06, @04:28AM (#13961850) kids at the upper and lower 10 percentiles should not be in the main stream. Whether university is right for him is an open question. I suspect they have nothing else to challenge him.He will find physics challenging.As for the social side - well - he'll have to do the best he can. If anyone wants to ponder what it is like to be the brightest kid in the classroom then consider how it would feel to be sitting in a classroom of monkeys being taught by a monkey.Once you get past the 99th percentile the measuring stick no longer is working.So the post is not insightful. I could have moderated it down but I chose to reply instead.Please note that I am not talking about accelerating someone with a high 80's average. I'm talking about those few kids that nail 100% time after time after time and don't bother to study becuase there is nothing to study.For them, being in a gr 12 math class is like asking a normal "A" student to take a grade 2 math class. [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Annoying (Score:5, Insightful) by PingPongBoy (303994) on Sunday November 06, @05:10AM (#13961938) If high school was no challenge why would university be a challenge? After all it's geared to average learning for people who survived public school.The whole idea is to have an effective algorithm for acquiring knowledge. Bingo, you don't need school. What you need is a bit of time to learn (i.e., run the algorithm) and objectives or problems or whatever. In other words, after a year or two, graduate and get on with life.Now can we have the 10 DVD set of Educate Yourself This Week by Watching Nonstop? After a person goes through school, how much of that knowledge is ever applied? It all seems so irrelevant. Let me see, the last time I applied the quadratic equation ... Was it that long ago that I balanced a chemical equation?By the way, we never really explained to you, school is just an IQ test. It seems a bit of a waste of 12+ years. Why not just launch kids straight into university right out of kindergarten - in other words, make graduating really count?The one thing about university is it's rigor - failure is not tolerated well. The age of the student means nothing in first year. Even someone 80 years old is totally comfortable.But, you know, starting kids into university young may be a good thing. A lot of people don't know how to communicate well, and first year university would be mostly about communications since 5 and 6 year olds really have no language skills. A university-standard education on communications would do wonders for the world. At any rate, it would cause wonders. 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Say what? (Score:5, Insightful) by Quiet_Desperation (858215) on Sunday November 06, @04:34AM (#13961869) I'm sorry, but in what parallel dimension do they teach maturity in the school system?In all the schools I went to, the clique-ized and institutionalized immaturity was actively supported by the teaching staff that openly favored the "popular" kids. The end result when this cancer has fully metastasized is national news stories of the football team stuffing foriegn object up the asses of other students while the coach looks on approvingly. Google on "mepham high football". And that's the best case. Worst case is Columbine.Maybe that's teaching about the real world, but don't you dare call it maturity. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Say what? by DoctorHibbert (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @08:32AM Re:Say what? (Score:4, Insightful) by Guppy06 (410832) <diwancio&earthlink,net> on Sunday November 06, @10:13AM (#13962757) (Last Journal: Saturday October 29, @02:56PM) "Worst case is Columbine."I've said it before and I'll say it again: the only reason Columbine made copy is because they were pointing their guns at someone other than themselves for once. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Annoying by nEoN nOoDlE (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:42AMRe:Annoying by Ruvim (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @04:49AMRe:Annoying by teslatug (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:18AMRe:Annoying by esteric (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @05:40AMWilliam Sidis by Egregius (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:07AMRe:Annoying by smchris (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @09:45AMRe:Annoying by rm999 (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @04:09AM