Why send your child to one of the "most rigorous colleges" in the US but not highly ranked?

[Canuckguy]

^ Great article. Just two quick comments:

For example, Neil Simon told me: “I don’t write consciously—it is as if the muse sits on my shoulder” and “I slip into a state that is apart from reality.”

A former gold medalist for Romania at the IMO talked about this abstract “crystal clear world” he can switch into at will. He believes it is something you are born with, and he thinks it is one step from autism. Apparently he can stay in that state for hours even when he was as young as five.

Part of what comes with seeing connections no one else sees is that not all of these connections actually exist. “Everybody has crazy things they want to try,” that same subject told me. “Part of creativity is picking the little bubbles that come up to your conscious mind, and picking which one to let grow and which one to give access to more of your mind, and then have that translate into action.”

In the TED talk I posted earlier, the good professor sees the link between creativity and intelligence. Creativity is not just picking the little bubbles that come up to your conscious mind, but to also know which ones worth pursuing and which ones to discard.