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- Albert Enstein
However, he was not considered very bright when he was a child. When he was nine, his father told his wife he was very worried about him because he was “a bit dim”. His teachers complained that he had no sense of discipline and had a bad effect on the other pupils. When he was fifteen, he was thrown out of school, but a few years later he was allowed to study mathematics and physics at a special technical university in Zurich. However, even at university he was hardly “a good student”. He rarely attended lectures, and was often trouble with the professors because he constantly argued with them. One of them told him:” You are clever, extremely clever. But you have one real fault – you never let your self be told anything!” When he graduated from university he couldn’t get a job, partly because none of his professors would recommend him for one. Finally he found one in the Swiss Patent Office in Berne. One of his duties was writing descriptions of new inventions.
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