Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15

Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15 by sannee on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @03:01PM (#10590309)

I wonder how does one learn social skills at a place where socializing is explicitly forbidden for about 85% of the time.

Also, you get to interact with only about 20 other random people of the same age with the same skill set (by definition). For 10 or so years. Very realistic, totally happens in real life.

I mean, schools are terribly inefficient at teaching skills/knowledge, but they are clearly even more terrible at teaching social skills.

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Re:Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15 by vaishaksuresh on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @05:22PM (#10591202)

You talk to teachers, ergo learn the meaning of accepting someone's authority. You learn to share common resources in the classroom with your peers. You stick to a schedule and respect other people's time by doing things in a timely manner. You learn to have fun safely, you learn to deal with people more capable of you (intellectually and physically). I could go on.

They all seem like pretty good social skills to me.

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