Read Four Languages at the Age of Four.
A ten year old prodigy of learning, William J. Sidis, has astonished the intellectual world of Boston by passing the entrance examination in to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the highest institution of its kind in the United States, where the average age of entrants is twenty-one. The boy is attracting the attention of psychologists, who consider that he gives support to the theory of inherited characteristics. His father, Dr. Borin Sidis. is a Russian of exceptional intellectual atttainments. and his mother is a physician of unusual skill. The youngster could read and write at two years of age, and at four he spoke fluently, and read at sight four languages. Now he is capable of holding his own in discussions on the nebular hypothesis, or debating abstruse problems in trigonometry.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 24, 9 December 1908, Page 38
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139Read Four Languages at the Age of Four. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 24, 9 December 1908, Page 38
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