> School needs to fundamentally change especially for adolescent males, it just stacks the decks against the high functioning learn by doing types.
The point of school is to teach discipline and grit - the subjects in and of themselves are merely incidental. Do you really think that these "great minds" - the kids who can't sit through a lecture and half-ass everything off of natural talent alone - would be doing great things if it weren't for the evil school system getting in the way?
"Smart but lazy" is probably the most insufferable combination of character traits. Nothing else even comes close.
(See also: "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer" - http://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html)