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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (47026)	7/25/1999 2:02:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, I personally don't object to your method. But I can't help bringing up John Stuart Mill, who was educated by his father, in accordance with a very specific educational program. By the time he was seven, John had read, among other things, the whole of Herodotus, Xenophon, and the first six Dialogues of Plato -- all in Greek. He did not start Latin until he was all of eight. And so forth. This prodigy obviously had no problem with brain development, and grew up to become one of the most important thinkers of his age. However, he did go through a major emotional crisis in his twenties -- we would call it a depressive episode -- which he attributed to the over-intellectuality (and under-emotionality, if I may be permitted the neologism) of his upbringing. Joan