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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: darwinism (Einstein)
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 02:59:38 EDT
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>and it was published in Reader's Digest and now it is part of Common Knowledge.
>Here is another folk theorem : It is Common Knowledge that Albert Einstein was 
> a terrible student as a child and flunked math.  As far as I know,  the young 
> Einstein was an excellent student.
> 
> Charles Neveu

	This appeared as an article in one of last year's New York Times
Science Times (every Tuesday) articles.
	The misconception arose because of the following.

	Early in his schooling Einstein got 1s (on a scale of 1 to 6) in his
mathematics courses.  Later, he got 6s.
	For years people assumed that he failed the early years and then
bloomed.  What actually happened was that the grading system was changed so 
that 6 became the highest grade, whereas prior to that 1 had been the highest.
That cleared up, it became clear that 1 or 6, he acheived the best possible
grades.

    (I learned this prior to my entering Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., BTW)

-- 
				Craig Werner
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		"The world is just a straight man for you sometimes"