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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.

                                 dale bass

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