XPost: sci.physics, soc.college.admissions   
   From: galathaea@excite.com   
      
   "Uncle Al" wrote:   
   : Why not take the guy at face value?  If indeed he is a wild mentality,   
   : run with it.  Folks like the NSA would generously bankroll him without   
   : hesitation, admittedly for a quid pro quo thereafter.  Feynmans,   
   : Hawkings, Wittens... are out there, despised by the world and   
   : hurting.  American zero-goal education exists to identify them and   
   : destroy them by drugs, counseling (therapist, the|rapist), and   
   : intellectual starvation and poisoning.   
   :   
   : Let him do the Putnam Competition.  If he answers five questions   
   : correctly, he's credentialed.   
   :   
   : If he is a troll he will wither.  35 loathsome years of Project Head   
   : Start, Title I, the Department of Education, and "diversity" are   
   : eloquent proof that intelligence cannot be counterfeited, leased,   
   : granted, redefined, or fiat created.  He can't fake it in front of   
   : adepts.   
   :   
   : The Severely and Profoundly Gifted glow nova bright.  Normals can   
   : erect a facade but they cannot maintain a simulacrum.   
      
   I have such a hard time reading you, Al.  Sometimes you write eloquently   
   about the intellectual pursuit, its true measure, and seem to admire the   
   thinkers with the guts to speculate (when they can back it).  Yet often you   
   are roaming around these groups insulting those who are speculating,   
   throwing out false _social_ barriers against those where only intellectual   
   barriers should exist.   
      
   I too agree this OP should be given proper advice to support the possibility   
   of greatness.  I would add that the state school is possibly a good place   
   for the student for the first few years of education because you can often   
   bully the teachers into removing prerequisites, opening up alot more   
   intellectual mobility over more private, structured schooling.  They should   
   re-evaluate their options after a few years to see if they wouldn't be   
   better served by (and _if_ they can even afford) a private institution   
   transfer.   
      
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