InnovateGuy wrote:mkenyan wrote:sparkly wrote:Boy likely suffers from a learning disability like Richard Branson but very gifted in hands on stuff. What he needs is funding, not books and teachers.
funding to do what? to generate more village electricity? when i was in primary school, i read some books and made biogas and electricity from a pit latrine. also made turpentine from waste plastic. other kids i knew also did stuff like that - and even more. and we were not geniuses or anything - that i believe is something kids do all over the world growing up. some wazuans are too easily impressed or had unimaginative childhood. 
The boy obviously has an aptitude for understanding things mechanical and electrical. All good ideas need to be marketed and monetized for them to be of any value. Where would microsoft, google, apple and facebook be if investors did not throw money at seemingly non-starter projects? What would have happened to prodigous talent like Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods, the Williams sisters and Lewis Hamilton if their parents told them "You are wasting your time, we already have singers, golfers, tennis players and motorists, and they are white folk".
Truth be told, not many of our electrical engineering graduates can come up with such a project.
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