<i>"... Encouraging children to aim beyond their means is a very bad idea. They will have very ambitious goals and will not settle for what they consider beneath them. This is a recipe for unemployment in the vast majority of cases. ..."</i><p>This idea recognises ability can be tempered by circumstance ~ <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025431" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025431</a>