It isn't that two year olds should be able to prove the Riemann sum hypothesis, it is that by the time they even hear about the Reimann " " they have been warped by min maxing grades, group projects, learning and unlearning shit, and being forced to accept the teacher's word as law. So many students who are more intelligent than the teacher, by law of averages has to be more than one a year, go unrecognized and don't get any of the sparse resources dedicated to the top decile while the bottom quartile gets easily half the time, attention, and money in the education environment.