The main problem with throwing 15 year olds into NASA is that, for a given year, there are far more of them than there are MIT graduates.
What is unbalanced about how we educate teenagers is that we saturate them with too many interactions with other teenagers (8 classes a day with 30 other students ~240 unique edges per student) and expect them to be able to focus on learning the course material. This despite the fact that adults outnumber teenagers by a considerable margin. It should be no surprise then that our society in the US is largely centered around childish interests as the majority of our social interactions have occurred as children with children.
By virtue of education or selection process?
The main problem with throwing 15 year olds into NASA is that, for a given year, there are far more of them than there are MIT graduates.
What is unbalanced about how we educate teenagers is that we saturate them with too many interactions with other teenagers (8 classes a day with 30 other students ~240 unique edges per student) and expect them to be able to focus on learning the course material. This despite the fact that adults outnumber teenagers by a considerable margin. It should be no surprise then that our society in the US is largely centered around childish interests as the majority of our social interactions have occurred as children with children.