Education: Superkid

Kenneth Wolf, II, expects to have his Ph.D. in chemistry when he is 16. He will probably get it, too. At Cleveland's Western Reserve University he leads mathematics and organic chemistry classes full of students years older than he is. His classmates at first kidded him relentlessly, especially about girls, but finally Kennie told them off: "The subject of girls becomes interesting only when the body matures," he explained. "Mine hasn't. It will later."

Kennie was kicked out of grade school because, said the principal, "he disrupted the class, asked too many questions, volunteered too many answers." Dean C. William Huntley...

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