/lit/ - Literature

I went to your average shitty American public schools for 13 years. Spent most of elementary school reading in the back of the class. Our 9th grade Shakespeare unit was reading a couple scenes and watching the movie. There was never any intellectual stimulation whatsoever. I'm going to college soon and want to be a philosopher. But if you look at the bios of great philosophers and authors they all had a great education as a child - Nietzsche went to a medieval school that's still famous today, Nabokov was trilingual, Arendt's mother made her read the complete works of Goethe, many French philosophers had famous philosophers as their own high school teachers - and of course they all learned Latin and Greek. I was lucky to have a few years of French!
I'm going to college soon, and I want to be a philosopher, but I'm afraid I've missed out on a critical formative education and so I will never be so erudite. Yes it sounds incredibly gay but I think I've missed the boat.