msaravanan

What interests me is that he has managed to openly ask students to drop out of mainstream education without much public outrage. Is it a sign that the society at large has perhaps stopped associating failure with dropping out?

Or is it because the people who joined the fellowship were too different to be called "normal" already?

That's interesting. Where I live (India), we didn't have a currency symbol until recently. Our currency is the Indian Rupee and we used to prefix "Rs." and "Re." to the value.

The govt. invited people from around the country to send in their designs and we finally chose one (20B9 on unicode). But it took us 2 years to start using the symbol on currency notes.