<p>The link [Good</a> night, Posterous](<a href=“http://cdixon.posterous.com/mit-is-a-national-treasure]Good”>http://cdixon.posterous.com/mit-is-a-national-treasure) that supposedly has the full story no longer shows anything.</p>
<p>MIT has fairly extensive general education requirements (nearly half of the curriculum), so a little more detail would be interesting, in knowing how he (without access to a high school) self-educated enough high school level knowledge to be able to handle the general education requirements in various subjects other than CS.</p>