The nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill was of the “anyone can do it” school. He was convinced that his achievements were in no way due to superior heredity: anyone of “normal intelligence and health,” subjected to his father’s educational system – which included learning Greek at the age of three – could have become John Stuart Mill.
19世纪哲学家约翰·穆勒是“人人都是天才”派成员。他相信他的成就跟基因优良毫无关系：任何“智力和健康状况正常者”在其父的教育制度下——包括从三岁开始学习希腊文——都可以变成约翰·穆勒。