http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-wrong-way-to-treat-child-geniuses-1401484790
We need more math majors who don't become mathematicians—more math-major doctors, more math-major high-school teachers, more math-major CEOs, more math-major senators. But we won't get there until we dump the stereotype that math is worthwhile only for child geniuses.
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/145/5/0/map_of_the_stereotypes_by_jaysimons-d7jo0w0.png
Someone had a lot of time on their hands.
"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.” - David Cronenberg