I hear often how dumbed down courses have become for America’s high school graduates. At least we all feel better about ourselves. In the meantime this 9 year old math prodigy wants more of a challenge. Something he isn’t getting so far in the University in Hong Kong. Don’t you wish more American students would begin to speak out about wanting to excel beyond the average (or below) work of most classes. Why hold him back? He might be stunted so some are complaining. Good thing the education system wasn’t in charge when many of the great minds of the past two centuries were being formed.
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A nine-year-old mathematics prodigy has become Hong Kong’s youngest undergraduate, waltzing through his first day at university saying classes were too easy.
March Boedihardjo, an Indonesian-Chinese boy resident in Hong Kong, was accepted by Hong Kong’s Baptist University to study for a master’s degree after gaining straight As in entrance A-level exams usually taken at 17 or 18.
“It was too easy,” Boedihardjo told reporters after attending a convocation ceremony in a pint-sized black-gown and his first day of classes Tuesday, adding that he’d already learnt the subject matter a year or two ago.
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