What strange ideas people have about Mozart and genius. Everyone is bad when they start doing anything. They gradually get better by putting in countless hours. I'm not a Mozart expert, but I know his father and sister were musicians, so his education and training would have started extremely young. You'll find a similar thing with most prodigies.
Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan , it sounds like he was obsessed with maths from the age of 10 or so. He learned from books. Sounds like by the time he got to college, what he was interested in wasn't taught there anyway; he was already too advanced/specialized.
His story seems to me a sad one, so often sick, dying only 6 years after arriving in England, at 32, etc.
Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan , it sounds like he was obsessed with maths from the age of 10 or so. He learned from books. Sounds like by the time he got to college, what he was interested in wasn't taught there anyway; he was already too advanced/specialized.
His story seems to me a sad one, so often sick, dying only 6 years after arriving in England, at 32, etc.