Aaron Swartz is something of a boy wonder when it comes to Internet development:

He was a finalist for the ArsDigita Prize for excellence in building non-commercial web sites at the age of 13. At 14 he co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, now used by thousands of sites to notify their readers of updates. He's a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group which is developing the format for the Semantic Web and Metadata Advisor to the Creative Commons. He's also the author of rss2email, xmltramp, HTML diff, and html2text.

So what happens when he reaches college? He blogs it, bien sur, in honest, articulate and sometimes fascinating detail .. but quite sensibly with a two-month delay.

He skips exams to see the highly-regarded Edward Tufte speak, and of course Mr. Tufte adds a comment on Aaron's blog apologising that they didn't get long to chat. He even posts negative feedback he receives for his papers that rather amusingly help him prove his point:

"School is the first step in a sorting process that chooses the most obedient and malleable of children to internalize the rules of the system so they can safely become the leaders of tomorrow. Those who are not sufficiently obedient, as well as those who are left over after all the leadership spots are filled, are given more heavily-supervised physical jobs where their mental compliance is not necessary."

too biased. needs support. But I'm not sure why this is relevant?

A fascinating read, for sure, but Aaron's Stanford blogging is most interesting for the insight it provides into the kind of tricky dynamics that teachers and students may face when this kind of comminicative behaviour becomes more common on campus or in the classroom. That having been said, clearly Aaron is a boundary case.