grr

[juliet]

13 yr old wanting to go to university

Oh for *fuck's* sake. He's 13, my arse would he "have no problems coping with life at university". And there's plenty of ways to avoid him "stagnating" at secondary school if they stop just pushing the poor kid to take exam after exam. Not to mention the fact that just possibly, if he'd *not* taken A level Maths early, he might have done better than a B.

grRRR. This sort of thing really pisses me off.

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[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I don't think he would do well at university per se - He would probably be very good at answering questions but could he carry out the research and project work side of things? I don't think he could - at 13 I could have handled the level of mathematics and knowledge that my degree now involves, if I had been allowed to learn it that early instead of having to sit and read Seamus Heaney poems 200 times, but I couldn't have run the course of having to think of, set up, and get right a whole experimental study. I don't think the relation of self to world has developed that far by 13. Fifteen maybe, for some, but not thirteen.

They could let him do most of the first two years of the degree now I suppose, but I think he'd learn more from it if he took it when he was older. Unless he took a completely theoretical subject.