“I mean that the kid’s been labeled creative. Now he’s gonna go through life thinking that that’s the only way for him to be, and if it turns out he’s not—for any number of fucking reasons, like hell, maybe life just gets in the way, or maybe the test was a fluke and he’s only in, you know, the sixtieth percentile, or maybe he is creative, but it doesn’t get him anywhere—then he’ll think he’s a failure. He’ll feel like he wasted his entire life trying to live up to a standardized test he took when he was thirteen.”
