"It's not that they're stupid, but I'm a lot smarter than they are, so when they were learning basic math I was already trying to dive into physics. I'm someone who takes the initiative to learn on my own." He was an autodidact to an extreme.

"Yeah, he made me go. So my goal was always to go to space and to do that, you have to be an expert in at least one field, although depending on the agency they need two. You're an expert, apparently, when they give you a paper that says so." Senku snorted. "So to do that, I had to go to university, and to do that I had to graduate high school, no matter how much I didn't want to go."

"The requirements for space agencies are pretty tough. You have to be able to speak at least two languages, and neither of them are the one in the country where I live, so I learned two other languages too." English was turning out to be incredibly useful though, the jury was still out on Russian.