How Geniuses Used to be Raised

Of late corporations seem awfully keen to replace human geniuses with machines, but I don’t think we should give up on humanity just quite yet. This is why I wrote “Why we stopped making Einsteins” about how historical geniuses were often molded via an artisanal method of education—especially the many geniuses born aristocrats who were shaped by a cavalcade of governesses and private family tutors (tutors who were in turn unusually likely to be great scientists or experts in their own right). Because the inequitable aristocratic method is impossible to scale into the mass-production required by our current education system, it’s feasible that the abandonment of aristocratic tutoring has led to a decline in genius and polymathy.