I'm hopeful (for now) that entrepreneurial mind x Internet x AI will make it easier to succeed without a traditional "Ivy League" path.

That's why I'd rather want my 9 years-old to acquire product development and marketing skills working for her purposefulness.

(But they are also high achievers for their ages, not because we push them into this system but because their parents are scholarly and the everyday things are source of intellectual conversation and curiosity.)