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https://www.nature.com/articles/081121a0[]. <academic publishing>[paywalled] after more than 100 years, thanks <Nature (journal)>.

From the abstract:
> Much money, his student went on to say, is spent by various Governments in attempting to discover those people whose thorough education may be expected to bring in a return of value to the State, and the question how best to discover latent genius is an eminently practical one. After cogitation, Prof. Ostwald came to the conclusion that it is those students who cannot be kept on the rails - that is, who are not contented with methodical teaching - who have within them the seeds of genius
<Ciro Santilli> couldn't agree more... notably <students must have a flexible choice of what to learn>.


How to diagnose a genius by wilhelm ostwald 1909

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