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I think for Andrew Hsu this is a big mistake. Looks like this guy has the potential of an Einstein or Newton and his academic gifts should be nurtured to the greatest extent possible. It is the equivalent of 'eating up our own seed corn' that happened during the industrial revolutions when 12 year olds were made to work in factories!

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I think he's got an interesting mission: he wants to change the way kids learn using his knowledge of neuroscience. http://www.andrewhsu.com/projects/project_overview.htm

If he doesn't succeed with his startup, I'm sure he'll go on to do great things anyway.

Odd that a man who is developing a company around 'learning by play' is depriving himself of the very playground late teens need -- a time for academic, physical, and emotional exploration with little supervision and few repercussions. I wish him the best of luck though.

If we had eaten our own seed corn, as you suggested, we would have been dead now (as a species and as a society).

Anyway that was about the age where Washington started to work as a surveyr.

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