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This story will make you change your mind.
In september 13, 2013 , the New York Time maked a artilcle about a young Mongolian boy named Battushig Myanganbyar and nicknamed "The Boy Genius of Ulan Bator". Here is the story:
Battushig has the round cheeks of a young boy, but he is not your typical teenager. He hasn’t read Harry Potter (“What will I learn from that?”) and doesn’t like listening to music (when a friend saw him wearing headphones, he couldn’t believe it; it turned out Battushig was preparing for the SAT). His projects are what make him happy. "In electrical engineering, there is no limit," he said, "it is like playing with toys." . He unveiled garage's siren in August 2012, posting instructions and a demonstration video on YouTube. The project impressed officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), where Battushig planned to apply for college, but at that point they were already aware of his abilities. Two months earlier, Battushig, then 15 , became one of 340 students out of 150,000 to earn a perfect score in Circuits and Electronics, a sophomore-level class at M.I.T. and the first Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC . A college course filmed and broadcast free or nearly free to anyone with an Internet connection, offered by the university.

How could a student from a country in which a third of the population is nomadic, living in round tents, was aware of the courses of the M.I.T. in fields that are not even typically taught in Mongolian schools?

The answer has to do with Battushig’s extraordinary abilities, of course, but also with the ambitions of his high-school principal. Enkhmunkh Zurgaanjin , the principal of the Sant School, was the first Mongolian to graduate from M.I.T., in 2009, and he has tried since then to bring science and technology labs to his students. “My vision,” he told me, “is to have more skilled engineers to develop Mongolia. To do that, everything has to start from the beginning.” In the past decade, Mongolia, which had limited landlines, invested heavily in its information technology infrastructure and now has an extensive 3G network. Most homes in Ulan Bator have Internet connections, and almost everyone, including nomads, has at least one cellphone. Even on the steppe, with only sheep in sight, you can get a signal.
Battushig finaly get a scholarship, went to M.I.T and got a Master of Engineering - M-Eng Artificial Intelligence (2017–2018) and in 2021 he co-fonded the compagny MATTER.

Source, Complet Article: New York Time