Originally Posted by Wren
Both Terrance Tao and Kit Armstrong were identified by the system. Your quote by Tao's father illustrates that.
What? Terry was identified by his parents. The quote is referring to his parents mistaken assumption that the system would identify his needs and that in putting him into the school system early they'd done their bit. His first school failed him utterly. Later, he was accelerated because his parents carefully chose a school that would do this and took part in the decisions throughout.
Originally Posted by Wren
I am talking about PG+. Kids that can do calculus in their heads by 5.
You're surely not excluding Terry Tao, the youngest ever IMO gold medallist, the Fields Medal winner? He's as PG as humans come. (He was very sensibly not exposed to calculus at age 5 - but maybe I'm taking you too literally. I'm confused about what your point is here.)


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