>quiet kid in my class
>can't_have_that.jpg
>go talk personally with him
>tell him I can notice he's a bright kid
>old hand on the shoulder trick
>hit him with the old "but you could learn a lot from your classmates"
>tell him he's got a bright future ahead of him if he learns to rely on other people
>he suddenly becomes a bright and energetic student with many friends, and goes on to prove the Riemann conjecture and give a talk about how this one professor told him he could go far one day and believed in him
Works like a charm.
>can't_have_that.jpg
>go talk personally with him
>tell him I can notice he's a bright kid
>old hand on the shoulder trick
>hit him with the old "but you could learn a lot from your classmates"
>tell him he's got a bright future ahead of him if he learns to rely on other people
>he suddenly becomes a bright and energetic student with many friends, and goes on to prove the Riemann conjecture and give a talk about how this one professor told him he could go far one day and believed in him
Works like a charm.
