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- Subject: Re: EINSTEIN'S SCHOOL DAYS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.170825.60872@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:08:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cc.1992Nov15.170825.60872
- References: <17241@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov14.004431.3351@wdl.loral.com>
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- In article <1992Nov14.004431.3351@wdl.loral.com>, mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com (Mark A Biggar) writes:
- >>Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong) writes:
- >>
- >> I read that Einstein was a very poor student in his early years. Was it
- >> because he just didn't bother to go to school because he found that what was
- >> being taught just wasn't stimulating enough for him or was it something else?
- >>
- >
- > I read somewhere that this is a myth. Einstein moved from one country
- > to another in the middle of his education, and the grading systems in the two
- > countries were very different. If I remember right in one of the countries
- > 5 was a good grade and 1 a bad while in the other it was other way around.
- > Someone looking at Einstein's grades, without knowing about the difference,
- > started the rumor that Einstein did poorly in math in grade school.
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- From what I remember from reading Carl Sagan's _Cosmos_ Einstein was
- absolutely brilliant as an adolescent, spending much of his time on thought
- experiments such as the simultinaeity (sp) paradox and the like. The time he
- spent on his studies suffered while he let his imagination roam.
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- "... where the 'stuff of life' is raining out of the skies..."
- -Carl Sagan
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