During the Renaissance, many elite noble children were polymaths who distinguished themselves in many disparate fields. If they had been switched at birth with the children of peasants on their fiefs, the peasant babies would have become polymaths. True then, true now.
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Replying to @Plinz
A kid trained from birth in multiple languages, instruments, battlefield techniques, rhetoric and other skills will excel (at those skills) over a kid who spent his life with a wheat field. If a study is required to prove it, I shiver at the wasted money going into studies.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I know powerful dingbats who passed through the best educational institutions in the world, and genius level folks who spent their childhood in the equivalent of a wheat field, so I am not entirely convinced by your intuition, but I will rest my case.
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Replying to @Plinz
It is obvious that some tiny portion of people raised in a wheat field are naturally brilliant, and some raised with the best education remain unable to take it further. It is equally obvious that the playing field is not level for the vast majority in between.
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Yes, and the question is what is it that makes the playing field so uneven.
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