"Your typical kid dreams about getting a puppy or meeting SpongeBob, but Esther Okade is not your typical kid. At just 6 years old, she was already taking her maths GCSE, generally undertaken by 14- to 16-year-olds in the United Kingdom, and getting a C (which, by the by, is what I got when I was taking high school math at a high school age). Now, 10-year-old Esther Okade is enrolled in a university math course and getting straight A’s as one of the youngest undergraduate students in the country" (Alicia Lu).

Why can't I be this committed to acing math like this girl? Lol. What are your thoughts on this fellow Dollars?

http://www.bustle.com/articles/68690-the-story-of-esther-okade-the-british-math-prodigy-who-attends-college-at-10-will-inspire

Kek she is going to be socially retarded when she becomes an adult.

>>2 And you concluded that from she being better at maths than average kids? Way to go...

@News: Sounds cool, though it's disappointing that her dream is to open a bank. Great problem solving skills getting wasted on banking is more than waste.

>>3 No it's nothing like how you're trying to spin it, she will go through her years in university struggling to develop the social skills that she would've acquired by being surrounded by people her own age and that will influence her social development.

>>4 You can't exactly know how developed she is socially. Even if she's not, you can't know if she's off worse or better by socializing with university students. I grew up socializing with people much older than me, sometimes 7-8 years older and I didn't turn out socially retarded, though you might troll a joke on this depending on what you think of me. I don't see the reason why her development is dependent on her socializing strictly with people approximately her age. That's her physical age and doesn't characterize her mental age regarding neither logical intelligence nor interpersonal intelligence. It might have it's difficulties and drawbacks, but it probably provides her with as much advantage as well.

>>3 What's so terrible about banking?

>>6 The banking system has a huge problem, it can produce money out of thin air practically by giving out more loans than the capital they have. Those who pay back that loan produce the actual base value for most of the loaned money as well as interest. This cycle produces a continuous quantitative growth of money in economies but the value of resources does not grow according to the money, which is there to measure it. So the resources are the same and there's more money, alas money loses value. Now your money is worth less than it was, and the excess money which caused its value to shrink was spent by the bank when it still had more value. Also, the bank makes a huge profit, since they are making excess value off of you, not just profiting from the interest, but the loan itself. If you don't believe me, you can do your research on how banks can give out loans multiple times the capital they have to cover for it legally. I don't like, nor do I trust the banking system. It's an obsolete faulty system, produces no functional value for society and even abuses the credibility of money as a common trading unit, which is btw. very prone to abuse. And this bit is only one part of a bigger problem which I wouldn't like to explain my views on right now. I don't know if that made much sense to you, but that's why I criticize the banking system and the money system in general, thus I find it a waste to put her mind to solving problems which serve the interests of such a system. There are other human problems which she could solve which would benifit human society as a whole.

Well if the banking system is so faulty, a girl as smart as this should have figured that out possibly, and it she just hasn't yet (because of, you know, age) but maybe when she does she can choose to fix the system and help solve a world problem in that department. Math is obviously her specialty, and banking involves numbers, I think its suitable to her and her abilities in my opinion I don't think its a waste. Its okay to think otherwise.

>>8 The problem is that it's not the number apartement where the problem is at. More at the critical thinking apartement. People, even scientists accept so much bullshit as fact without any questioning at all, that it's almost ridiculous. I mean there's a whole area of science built on economy and no one cares about the fact I mentioned earlier. She may figure it out later, but she definitely won't be able to solve it, since it's not just a mathematical problem, it's a mathematical-logical-structural-legal problem involving many aspects of life. If she tries to "solve" it, she'll be shot dead long before. Problems like these, only many, many people can solve in my opinion.

Anyways, kudos to her mom. I mean, she did a great job educating her daughter, here's proof that it can be done better than the school system does it.

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