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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.

	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 
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