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** Tiffany Aching reading the dictionary cover to cover because nobody ever told her she shouldn't and Susan Sto-Helit successfully teaching seven year-olds algebra and, when told it's too hard for them, replies that so far they haven't figured that out. It is needed to be said that examples of children learning something before adults would think they're ready to learn it are probably [[Truth in Television]]. A bright child may be reading books meant for adults by the age of eight or ten, though they probably won't understand [[Parental Bonus|everything they read]].

** Bergholt Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson, of [[Discworld]], is such an incompetent architect and inventor that he ends up creating buildings that are [[Bigger on the Inside]], and circles with the pi equal to exactly 3. Three of the national projects that he undertook can fit in a normal pocket. The full list is [http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Bergholt_Stuttley_Johnson here].

** Bergholt Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson, of [[Discworld]], is such an incompetent architect and inventor that he ends up creating buildings that are [[Bigger on the Inside]], and circles with the pi equal to exactly 3. Three of the national projects that he undertook can fit in a normal pocket. The full list is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120916232227/http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Bergholt_Stuttley_Johnson here].

** In ''[[Discworld/Equal Rites|Equal Rites]]'' Esk teleports something without a counterweight and was able to do it because she didn't know it was impossible, because she hadn't been formally taught.

** Discussed in ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'', when Leonard asks for journeymen craftsmen, rather than masters, because he has no use for "people who have learned the limits of the possible".