![]() Kearney's goal was to become a game show host, he told "Turning Point." ![]() And they didn't shield him from the public spotlight, even putting him on the "Tonight Show." But Michael's parents were convinced he needed the mental stimulation. There's a lot of debate about whether pushing a prodigy through school early is the right thing to do. "We put him in college to keep him normal," Kevin Kearney, Michael's father, told "Turning Point." "He needed to be in high school when he was 5 to be normal, and he needed to be in college when he was 6 to be normal." But what happens to a prodigy when he or she is no longer a child? "Good Morning America" Weekend Edition visited with Michael Kearney, whom we first met 10 years ago with Meredith Vieira on the ABC News program "Turning Point."īack then, Kearney was the youngest college grad ever at age 10, earning him a place in the "Guiness Book of World Records." ![]() ![]() 12, 2005 — - Child prodigies fascinate us. ![]()
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