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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by margalabargala on Friday February 21, 2025 @04:22PM (#43133166)
> The reason he did badly in school

The myth is not "Einstein did badly in school, but for that reason not this one". "Einstein did badly in school" is a myth, period. Einstein excelled in school.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/14/science/einstein-revealed...

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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by pdonis on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:25PM (#43134816)
> Einstein excelled in school.

hotdogscout correctly clarified that I meant university, not grade school. Sorry for the ambiguity on my part.

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Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) by hotdogscout on Friday February 21, 2025 @06:24PM (#43134351)
That user is talking about university, not grade school.

It's undisputable he did badly in university and could not hold himself in academia because of this metric.

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/07/fro...

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