Einstein was a bad student and particularly bad at math.
Nope. He was a great student. The myth has a few roots, but some of them tie back to a misunderstanding of the grading scale of the school he went to at the time as well as some comments he made during his life about how he disliked rote learning and other traditional teaching approaches that kind of made it sound like he had an axe to grind with respect to his childhood education.
Nope. He was a great student. The myth has a few roots, but some of them tie back to a misunderstanding of the grading scale of the school he went to at the time as well as some comments he made during his life about how he disliked rote learning and other traditional teaching approaches that kind of made it sound like he had an axe to grind with respect to his childhood education.