kengr

>> At some point, someone is going to have to come up with a solution for the "genius kids" in higher education. <<

At least two groups already have:

* The Marionettes have their own educational setup, which spans private schools that they actually run and public ones where they have a special interest. So many of the Moblings are soups that they really need accommodation for that.

* Kraken has the Ocean Pearls Academy which is basically an umbrella institution for homeschooling. It provides social connections and tailored lessons for superkids, many of whom can't safely attend ordinary schools (or at least not yet) and some who have survived educational abuse such that trying to push them into another school would likely result in a 50-foot robot situation.

These two approaches are working quite well, for the people who can access them.

A third is still in development. That's the Maldives. They've been purposely attracting soups for several years now. While they don't have a school for superkids yet, they're going to need one, and the President is a scholar magnet so I'm sure it'll turn out fine. That's also the first place to put up a supernary school for adults who want to construct superpowers by hand (the "Intensive Training" option in some roleplaying games).

Bear in mind that Super-Intellects are rare. Even if you count gifted as well as extremely gifted, they're not common. That limits what ordinary schools can do in the way of separate support, unless they are huge, which has its own problems.

Terramagne does have a lot more alternative schools than here, though. Many of those are much better equipped to meet the needs of exceptional students. Frex, Montessori schools allow children to work at their own skill level in each subject. They don't care about asynchronous development; they care that each child masters the material, which means not holding back in the adept areas or pushing too fast in the sluggish ones. Waldenkinder uses nature as a focus, which is great because one kid can be memorizing lepidoptera species while the others are just swishing butterfly nets. And I think that flexibility in educational offerings is because Terramagne has so much diversity, they've been forced to admit that cookie-cutter education doesn't work for everyone.

Yes, there are still colossal fuckups. Shiv was in his late teens before anyone realized how smart he actually is. His "Can't we just do this the easy way?" leads to insightful applications of superpowers and sometimes whole new inventions. And the idiots who raised him thought he was stupid because he reads badly and has a low bullshit tolerance.

No place is perfect.

If you want to explore more about education in Terramagne, by all means prompt for it. There's plenty that I know about but haven't written yet.