<p>Frankly, after getting to the working world and encountering things that I didn’t actually enjoy, I am more impressed with my peers who didn’t like school but spent years and years gutting it out. But for people who are enthusiastic about it, school is not like work, and you should just let them do what they want to do. If they can find a talented peer group through a magnet school, get extra enrichment through parents or outside programs, then that is the ideal thing in my opinion. But these things aren’t always possible. The worst thing is to enjoy doing something work-related, have to wait to do it for half a decade because it wasn’t viewed as age appropriate. Then by that time, you may not even like it anymore. It’s like giving a puppy to your kid 10 years after they asked for it. </p>
<p>And slowing them down because there is no use for an 18-year-old doctor or lawyer doesn’t make any sense either. If they choose to, they could always take a year or two off traveling, or find something else to do. And who says they will end up as a doctor or a lawyer anyway? Let people do what their heart tells them they want to do AT THE TIME they want to do it.</p>