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Ziggyblitz

Exactly how old was Magnus when he dropped out of school? I thought he just skipped the final year.

harikrishna2002

magenus carlsen sir,which school he studied plz tell me 

fast!!! fast!!! fast!!!

nparma

By the time Carlsen should've finished high school he was aware to become the next world champion. What for getting that degree?

dannyhume
People act like this “high school dropout” phenomenon is something that ought to hinder one’s progress. If you look at overall numbers, sure, dropping out of school is usually a bad sign for one’s future.

However, if you want to succeed in a very specific subject beyond every other human to the exclusion of everything and everyone else, then you MUST drop out of general education systems and center your entire life around the one skill you want to obsessively develop. If Fischer and Carlsen wasted their time learning geography and social studies instead of centering their entire education and existence around chess, then they wouldn’t have been as successful as they were.
th3apple

I didn’t know that! Well I guess that I know that I don’t know!

Laskersnephew

Great dancers, great athletes, great musicians, great chess players: all of them frequently drop out of the formal education system in order to develop their particular genius. 

BonTheCat

For what it's worth, Magnus Carlsen himself makes no claim to being a genius. He's more than once said that compared to someone like GM John Nunn, he's not at all smart. That said, he's clearly intelligent enough to finish school and get a degree at uni. He's just chosen not to, and no longer needs it.

Laskersnephew

"For what it's worth, Magnus Carlsen himself makes no claim to being a genius. "

Absolutely true. Magnus has never claimed to be any kind of genius in general. In fact, I think he might be too modest. But he clearly has a genius for chess, in the same way that Itzak Perlman has a genius for the violin.

Amoynek

What can I say,

everyone can choose to be a high school drop-out,

but only one shall be our champion.

zone_chess
ToweringAir wrote:
AndyClifton a écrit :

What does being from a different era have to do with it?  And what's surprising about him being a high school dropout?  I'm an NM and I dropped out of high school.

Well, I do not know I guess that being the highest rated player ever in chess and the world champion make him quite a very intellectual person. So, I kind of thought that a person of that intellectual level and capacity might have been highly educated. So I was surprised to learn that he not have much of a formal education (just like Fischer who I thought a the exeption of the exception.)

But you say you're a NM and I am inclined to believe it might be true (seeing your online rating) but why don't you have the title here (the red NM beside your nickname) BTW I am a dop-out as well so I am in a position to understand what it means, though I am not not a good chess player!

 

Magnus has a very high education, just not in terms of a state-ordered system!
Like many top athletes, they usually stop their education because their 'special abilities' career is taking off and consumes all of their time.
How much time did you think it takes to become a GM let alone a superGM?
Just a little more study after reaching 2,000?
No, elo progression isn't linear but exponential. It takes years to reach every new level in chess.
Even getting from 2700 to 2800 can take 10 years with full-time commitment.

Traditional formal education means nothing anymore in todays hyperconnected and holarchic world.

Chris64SQ

Yea it's so utterly stupid if/when people judged everything in terms of high school education/drop out of school!...i say if school is not your thing :tdown if it sucks THAT MUCH, then drop out DROP OUT!...do something you like, because life is short!

idilis
Amoynek wrote:

What can I say,

everyone can choose to be a high school drop-out,

but only one shall be our champion.

But it's important to say, especially 2 years after the last post

idilis
ToweringAir wrote:

Hi,

I heard Magnus Carlsen is an high school dropout with no formal eductaion, is that true?*Snip*

While I'm here let me also say I'm all for eductaion and speeling.  Please don't hate me.

zone_chess
ToweringAir wrote:

but Fischer is from another era.

 

Uhm, in this era of self-directed learning and independent entrepreneurialism it's actually increasingly more common to leave nation-state-governed school systems behind.

zone_chess
harikrishna2002 wrote:

magenus carlsen sir,which school he studied plz tell me 

fast!!! fast!!! fast!!!

 

The Kasparov school of chess. That's the school he needed.

jeffzatkoff

magnus was probably a total alpha in high school

jeffzatkoff

i bet he had to give up on his bodybuilding dreams to become the world chess champion

SwimmerBill

i'll defend the value of education with pleasure. Knowledge of history (the stories of out ancestors and the price they paid to get us where we are), literature, science (the how of the universe) etc makes you life richer in many ways more valuable than can be measured by money or titles. A classical liberal education, after all, was thought to be the knowledge and skills necessary to ''live as a free man in a free land''.    Of course, an education does not mean a degree. Many by following their own curiosity and reading deeply have an excellent education but no degree. Maybe, he is one.

Sydow90

very nice post you guys have created here.

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brilliantchess960

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