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How geniuses used to be raised - by Erik Hoel

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Aristocratic tutoring III: The day-to-day practices

Of late corporations seem awfully keen to replace human geniuses with machines, but I don’t think we should give up on humanity just quite yet. That’s why I wrote “Why we stopped making Einsteins” about how historical geniuses were often molded via an artisanal method of education—especially the many geniuses born aristocrats who were shaped by a cavalcade of governesses and private family tutors (tutors who were in turn unusually likely to be great scientists or experts in their own right). Because the inequitable aristocratic method is impossible to scale into the mass-production required…

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