The March/April 2012 issue of Technology Review includes an article, Too Young to Fail, with a photo of Laura Deming who enrolled at MIT at age 14, to start her own business. Too Young to Fail describes Laura as a teen who won a $100,000 award to explore the "science of extending human life span, an idea she hopes to turn into business."
We see more teenagers getting involved in big ideas. Another example has been FaceBook's CEO Mark Zuckerman who eyes new talented teen programmers. The same goes on in other Silicon Valley startups where high risk is encouraged and highly awarded.
So this post is not about low achievers or even average high school students, it is about teens prodigies who are smart, curious, willing to take high risk, and sometimes fail.
Here's the piece on Killing creativity: Why kids draw pictures of monsters and adults don't. It is all about imagination and kids' attitude to explore, to fail without being punished, to experiment, and imagine. Powerful qualities of good artists.
