Table of contents:
- Bill Gates
- Anton Chekhov
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- Thomas Edison
- Joseph Brodsky
- Winston Churchill
- Andrey Tarkovsky
- Lev Tolstoy
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At school, teachers insist that good academic performance is the key to success in adulthood. However, history knows many examples of how lagging students not only achieve success, but also become great writers, politicians and even scientists. Without demonstrating the ability to master the elementary school curriculum, the Losers make scientific discoveries and influence world politics.
Bill Gates
During his school years, the founder of Microsoft did not please parents and teachers with good academic performance. Attempts by the mother and father to stimulate their son financially, paying for each good grade, also did not lead to a positive result. Not a single humanitarian subject interested young Bill enough to spend time studying it. However, the failure of Bill Gates was explained simply: he was fascinated by computers. He was simply sorry to waste time on sciences that were insignificant for him, to the detriment of mathematics and programming. At the same time, on the exam in mathematics, he showed a truly outstanding result in grade 8: 800 points, while 750 was already considered an almost unattainable result.
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Anton Chekhov
One of the greatest Russian writers, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, was twice a second year due to poor grades in geography, arithmetic and Greek. However, he had obvious learning abilities, but the need to help his father in the shop took up too much of the boy's time and did not allow him to conscientiously prepare for classes. When the family moved to Moscow, the situation changed dramatically. Anton Pavlovich was able to enter a medical institute, and then began to write.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
The great scientist, the founder of theoretical cosmonautics, could not boast of academic success in childhood. The reason for this was deafness, which developed at the age of 10. He hardly heard the explanations of the teachers. After his older brother died and his mother died suddenly, he began to study even worse, and was expelled from the third grade altogether. He never attended educational institutions again, which did not prevent Konstantin Eduardovich from engaging in self-education and scientific and technical creativity. Subsequently, he was able to pass the exams, obtaining the right to engage in teaching activities and become a truly outstanding inventor and author of many scientific works.
Thomas Edison
As a child, Thomas Edison attended school for only three months, after which the teachers asked the parents to take the boy out of the school. Teachers considered Edison too limited, and some were not at all shy in expressions, assessing the mental abilities of the future inventor. In fact, his mother, who had previously worked as a teacher, gave him his initial knowledge. Young Thomas Edison, nevertheless, was very curious, began to independently study those sciences that interested him most of all. At the age of 10, he already set up the first experiments and until the end of his life he believed: he could not invent anything if he was in school.
Joseph Brodsky
The future Nobel laureate in literature seemed to despise study. He did not like the training system itself, and he did not feel a special craving for knowledge. In the classroom, he defiantly looked out the window, and even interfered with the teachers, constantly inventing some pranks. At the same time, he simply refused to answer the questions of teachers, he did his homework extremely rarely and very slovenly, and in high school he began to skip classes altogether. In the seventh grade, he was left for the second year for academic failure, and instead of going to the eighth, he got a job as an apprentice at a factory, closing the issue of education for himself forever.
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Winston Churchill
The renowned British politician and Nobel Prize winner in literature at school was the last student in his class in academic performance. Very mediocre academic success and poor health did not allow the future statesman to qualify for admission to the prestigious Eton College, but at Harrow, where Winston Churchill later studied, he became one of 12 graduates who managed to pass tests in all subjects. And at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, he became one of the best.
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Andrey Tarkovsky
The famous director, who has shot many amazing films, some of which can rightfully be attributed to the masterpieces of world cinema, did not shine with much success at school. His certificate of secondary education is replete with practically one triplets. The exact sciences were given to the future director especially hard, so the school magazine often featured deuces, especially in chemistry and drawing. But on the other hand, additional education seriously fascinated Tarkovsky. He graduated from music school and studied art. Before entering VGIK, Andrei Tarkovsky studied for a year at the Institute of Oriental Studies, and he made the decision to enter the directing department after working with a geological party in Siberia.
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Lev Tolstoy
The great Russian writer was educated at home, but after entering the Imperial Kazan University, Leo Tolstoy had certain problems. At the Faculty of Oriental Literature, where he studied at his own expense, at the end of the year he was recommended to study again. Lev Nikolaevich, in order not to return to the beginning of his studies, transferred to legal, however, he did not show much zeal for study there either, but he was transferred to the second year. True, he did not finish his studies to the end, preferring self-education, which allowed him to study those sciences to which he felt a craving.
Now they are famous and popular, and in their school years they were no different from their classmates, unaware that they were sitting at the same desk with the future star. Anfisa Chekhova, Potap, Vera Brezhneva, Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Ksenia Sobchak, Lera Kudryavtseva, Sergey Lazarev - which of them was an exemplary excellent student, and who hated school and skipped classes?
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