Myth #38: Einstein Flunked School

So, you’ve heard the myth that Albert Einstein was a lackluster student, flunking math tests with reckless abandon? Well, it’s high time we set the record straight! While Einstein may have been a bit of a nonconformist who didn’t quite fit the mold of the traditional educational system, he was far from being a poor student.

By the tender age of 15, this young prodigy was already diving headfirst into the intricate realms of differential and integral calculus. Sure, he may have stumbled a bit in subjects like English, Zoology, and Botany, but let’s be real—when you’re busy reshaping the very foundations of physics, who’s got the spare mental bandwidth for photosynthesis?