alt Hacker News> If Terence Tao wasn't school-shaped, would he have been as successful?
He learned to read and write by himself. I'm pretty sure he would've been fine regardless of shape.
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fuzzfactor • today at 10:44 AM
At that age I thought it was perfectly normal, just not universal.
What sticks in my mind from the pre-school Mad magazines was the mascot philosophy; "What, me worry?"
And that's probably the opposite of being school-shaped. School is hellishly boring if you're ahead of the curve.