I have great memories from a Montessori School I went to as a kid. Spent most of my childhood education there. It was a big house, each room was dedicated to a subject and students would change rooms, big shared tables and very few students per room. I also don't remember grades or at least no focus on it.
When I got to a normal school it was one big room packed with tiny individual chairs, all classes happened in that room, everything was easy, suddenly I was a "top student" and grades were a carrot to chase after. I didn't turned out exactly a Noam Chomsky but I find it funny he had this same experience while going from an alternative education to a traditional one.
> Through the math competitions, Avila discovered IMPA, where Brazil held its Olympiad award ceremonies each year. There, he met prominent mathematicians like Carlos Gustavo Moreira and Nicolau Corção Saldanha, and while still technically in high school, he began studying graduate-level mathematics.
>In Brazil, Avila could relish mathematics without the career pressures he might have faced in the United States. “It was better for me to study at IMPA than if I were at Princeton or Harvard,” he said. “Growing up and being educated in Brazil was very positive for me."
Wouldn't prioritizing packets at routers create slower queues for low priority packets?
Murphy's Law tells me there's a good chance these low priority queues will slow down exponentially at random times. Routing nightmare if you consider DDoS and what not.
Mozart's symphonic works alone are more complex than what Gaga does. Take the 40th, the harmonies, the transitions, the sheer beauty of it. Despite the huge technical challenges of composing for a Symphony, still add that much beauty to it. And then there are vocal works, Opera, chamber groups... He was a huge influence on Beethoven, and a couple other cats... Mozart beats Gaga in complexity and inspiration. I feel funny having actually typed this comment...
>There are more jobs around now than there was at the dawn of industrialization
But the population also exploded since then.[1]
I believe there are possibly no jobs for every one and a basic income of some kind should be considered. Just a way to avoid misery until people figure out their talents. [2]
I'm not a hater, though. I love the idea of Amazon Air, even though I'll probably never use it. Just to know it exists is a funny thing.
Minimum salary won't get you out of poverty either. It means 2-4h in a packed bus, work for someone else, see your kids only when they're sleeping, have no alternative but public health and education, which usually is hellish.
Do voluntary jobs with sick and old people. Replacing your problems with other people's problems makes you think better.