Ramanujan was hardly the unlettered child of the soil some people want him to be; he not only went to elementary and secondary schools, he got post-secondary ed

Ramanujan was hardly the unlettered child of the soil some people want him to be; he not only went to elementary and secondary schools, he got post-secondary education on a scholarship and even lived with other post-secondary students majoring in mathematics. He was also not ignored by the local mathematicians even before he met Hardy.