Starting programming

Is it a good idea to start programming with LISP through SICP? I've always heard mixed opinions: some say math and books aren't really important to programming and you should just get to the point (a language you want to learn) and some say you should be good at it and focus on learning math as well.

I remember from childhood one more episode. When I was discharged from insane asylum at 10 years old (I was treated for child schizophrenia from the age of 8), my mother sent me back to the village to my grandmother, who of course told neighbors about my diagnosis, and in a couple of days the whole village knew that I had a schizo certificate.

Village children ran after me and teased "nikitka fool, nikitka fool ..." I tolerated for a while, but at one point broke and, grabbing an iron bar, chased two of them, a boy and a girl who by the way were even older than me. They were frightened and ran, but the girl stumbled and fell, rolling down the hill, and the boy, leaving his girlfriend, continued to run away (Russians do not leave their own, yeah). As I approached the girl, I struck her several times with a piece of iron on the body and on the head.

Militia men were called, but since I was only 10 years old, I was only strictly reprimanded. Now I regret that I did not kill this girl, because as Anton Lavey bequeathed, act upon others as they act upon you. It would be interesting then to ask her relatives and friends "well, you scum, and who is a fool now?"

Sometimes I dream about this episode, that I stab this girl with a knife.