Is it true that einstein did not finishes his secondary school?

Question

is he a good friend of gandhi and he also share the same wiew of world peace with him?

Answer 1

No, it is not true. This is one of those persistent myths that is supposed to make people feel better about their own lack of education or poor performance therein.

Einstein had the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in science *before* he took up the infamous position as a patent clerk. His falling out with the school system was over an associate professor position (which you don't apply for if you've dropped out of high school), and it was a personality clash with a teacher he disagreed with.

In his miracle year (1905) he wrote three papers which changed physics. he did this with his bachelor's degree behind him, with his own continuing study and with a well maintained network of other physicists and an eye on current discoveries.

Education is important. For every one "I dropped out of high school but went on to rule the world" story there are millions of "I dropped out of high school and went on public welfare and lived in a cardboard box" stories. With the advent of global communication the pace of science today is such that it is less likely than ever before that someone unconnected to formal physics education could make a significant contribution to physics.

Answer 2

Not true. I agree with Magic Chicken.

Also, there was a time when the 1st grade was called the 10th grade and vice versa. Einstein was in the 1st grade when they switched the system. Most people don't know this, and therefore could have mistaken his 10th grade marks for his last year, and 1st grade for his 1st year in school. It seemed like his grades went down as he got older when in fact, they got higher. He was bad at French though, got poor grades.

I am not sure if Einstein and Gandhi were close, but both were pacifists and regarded each other in a high position. Einstein said about Gandhi when he died that "generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood." Einstien also said that if he knew that his theories would cause a lot of deaths (the atomic bomb was in indirect creation of Einstein), he would have "made cuckoo clocks for a living"

Answer 3

Good response Magic Chicken. That's exactly what I was going to say.

Yes, Einstein was not a dropout. He was not bad at science. He was always exceptionally good at math and science and mediocre at history and some languages (I saw his report card at a exhibition of his life at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC). In fact, he derived a novel geometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem at the age of 11. He completed his secondary school and college degree but had difficulty obtaining an academic post. Although exceptionally brilliant in a traditional sense, his main strengths were the ability to think outside the box and work obsessively on topics of interest to the exclusion of all else. He did have some help from a mathematician friend of his in deriving and expanding his theories of special and general relativity but the theoretic constructs were his own. Despite legend, though, he was a mathematic powerhouse in own right.

Answer 4

Doctor Albert Einstein!

Answer 5

Einstein finished secondary school in Aarau, Switzerland and received his diploma in September 1896

Answer 6

Einstein was bored with formal education. Here's a list of his educational background. Hope this helps!

Answer 7

This is true. He was taken out after 3 months by his mother and home schooled. Good role model for home schooling eh?

Answer 8

Did you know that he was bad a math?

Yes, thats right. This super genius was once bad at math. He made simple calculation errors on a nearly constant basis when he was young.

Answer 9

Have a look at his diploma:

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The scale is from 1-6 (6 being the highest, 1 being the lowest).

Answer 10

No, he did drop out but it was after secondary school.