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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: EINSTEIN'S SCHOOL DAYS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.071325.28886@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <17241@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov14.004431.3351@wdl.loral.com> <1992Nov15.170825.60872@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:13:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.170825.60872@cc.usu.edu> sl3nf@cc.usu.edu writes:
- >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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > "... where the 'stuff of life' is raining out of the skies..."
- > -Carl Sagan
-
- He was at various times considered a relatively poor student because
- he was a) a bit sloppy in primary school, b) contemplative
- and considered a bit slow at other times, c) arrogant and
- independent in his college years (among other reasons no one offered
- him a job after graduation). Read his collected works before
- reading Pais.
-
- And you'd think Mr. Sagan wouldn't talk about himself in the
- third person.
-
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