Again two: outstanding personalities who had "bad" in their diaries in childhood

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Winston Churchill, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Thomas Edison - all these outstanding personalities have one thing in common: in childhood they hated going to school and were considered avid failers. But after so much time, it's safe to say that the "life universities" had a greater impact on them than cramming homework.

1. Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, hated learning as a child and did not want to gnaw the granite of science. The first lessons with a nanny, and then a governess, were difficult for the little lord. At school, he always went beat up for academic failure. Parents had to take Winston home more than once for academic failure. After 13 years, the future prime minister showed an improvement in grades: he began to receive not deuces, but triples. But he was also continued to be considered "dumb" and was even allowed not to study Latin and ancient Greek.

2. Andrey Tarkovsky

First class of the famous director Andrey Tarkovsky fell on 1939. Then the war began, evacuation, hunger - in general, you can forget about elementary school. As he got older, Andrei more and more often viewed the school as a misunderstanding and slowly but surely turned into a dude. In Tarkovsky's certificate, there are several twos, which, however, did not prevent him from becoming what he became.

3. Vladimir Mayakovsky

Soviet literary critics tried not to spread about the school failure of the revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The first three classes little Volodya studied with excellent marks, and then in 1905 he was overwhelmed by the revolutionary war. It was much more interesting to stare at the screaming newly minted ideologues breaking the old system than learning the lessons. Mayakovsky was transferred to the fourth grade because of a broken head (he had a fight), they took pity on the poor student at the exams. After the fifth grade, the poet left school altogether.

4. Honore de Balzac

French writer Honore de Balzac in adolescence, I had a chance to go to study at the Vendôme boarding school, which was a kind of mixture of a monastery and a prison. The children were not even allowed to go home on vacation. The future writer did not show any interest in learning, for which he was sent to the closet as a punishment. There Balzac would open a book and read it enthusiastically. But the frequent stay in the college punishment cell seriously undermined the writer's health, the father had to take the boy home. After the boarding school, there were two more schools in which there was a similar situation. In the end, the father gave his son the freedom to choose.

5. Thomas Edison

Famous inventor Thomas Edison at school they called him a moron. The education system of that time involved cramming complex passages of text and the constant punishment of beating with sticks. By the end of the first grade, Edison was a round failure. The boy's subsequent education was carried out only by his mother at home. Many years later, the Losers never ceased to amaze the world with his inventions.

6. Joseph Brodsky

The poet Joseph Brodsky hated the Soviet education system from the very beginning. In his school case, it was stated that Joseph did not do his homework, was rude to teachers, a bully, a bully. After the 6th grade, the boy practically stopped appearing in class, walking along the streets of Leningrad. After the future poet was left in the 7th grade for the second year due to academic failure, he dropped out of school altogether. the students had their own rules of conduct.