Why Nerds Are Unpopular

I'm posting this here first hoping that /prog/rammers are the most mature of the textboard audiences. Please take time to read it till the end. It will make a lot of things click, and will make life start to seem way less gloomy.

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

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No. It were jews. Read wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education
every parent in Judea since Moses's Covenant with God, nearly a thousand years prior, was required to teach their children at least informally. Over the centuries, as cities, towns and villages developed, a class of teachers called Rabbis evolved. According to the Talmud (tractate Bava Bathra 21a) which praises a sage Joshua ben Gamla with the institution of formal Jewish education in the 1st century AD., Ben Gamla instituted schools in every town and made formal education compulsory from the age of 6 or 7.