in more recent times Gandhiji, perhaps, is one who assiduously
brushed aside adulation to remain a free 'nobody'. At the Congress
session when his, the star of the session, stunned everybody by cleaning
up the Intrines, his net was calculated to purge Congress workers of their
Onlso sense of status, and so to return the movement to its down-to-carth
roots. The point of guarding against becoming a self-defenting somebody
applies to the upbringing of children as well. Doting parents often stunt
the natural growth of their children through excessive adulation,
Commonplace acts and utterances of the child aro praised and quoted
beyond reason. Talent that otherwise might have flowered under proper
training, is lauded to the extent of killing it.
John Stuart Mill's education and training began very carly. At an
age when many kids can barely lisp a few words, he had learnt enough
Greek and Latin to read the classics in the original. Before he was five
he had read more than what many scholars normally read in their career,
Did this make the child John foel heady? No! Because, he tells us, his
father (who was also his tutor) always made him believe that there was
nothing extraordinary about his achievement; that he was doing only
what anybody is capable of doing. Mill was made to believe that other
boys of his age bad, in fact, grossly underestimated their capabilities and
were wasting their carly years striving for too little,
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