This did not prevent them to become famous.
Winston Churchill, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Thomas Edison – all of these outstanding personalities have one thing in common: they hated to attend school and were considered to be heavy losers. But, after all this time, it’s safe to say that “education” has had a greater impact than cramming homework.
1. Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who received the Nobel prize in literature, in childhood, hated training and did not want to gnaw the granite of science. The first lesson with nanny and then a governess resented the little Lord. In school he always went broken for academic failure. Parents had to take Winston home for academic failure. After 13 years of a future Prime Minister there has been an improvement in the marks: he’s got not two, but three. But it is also still considered to be “dumb” and not even allowed to learn Latin and ancient Greek language.
2. Andrei Tarkovsky
The first class of the famous Director Andrei Tarkovsky came in 1939. Then the war started, evacuation, hunger – in General, elementary school can be forgotten. As they get older, Andrew is increasingly considered the school as a misunderstanding and is slowly but surely turning into a Ted. The certificate Tarkovsky flaunts several deuces, which, however, did not prevent him to become what he became.
3. Vladimir Mayakovsky
About the school failure of the revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky Soviet literary critics tried to spread. The first three classes of little Volodya, studied on “perfectly” and then in 1905 it flooded the revolutionary war. To stare at the screaming newly minted ideologues, breaking the old system, was much more interesting than homework. In fourth grade, Mayakovsky moved because of a broken head (fighting), sorry losers on the exams. After the fifth class poet, and went from school.
4. Honore de Balzac
The French writer Honore de Balzac in adolescence had a chance to go to study Place in the residential College, which was a kind of a mixture of monastery and prison. Even children are not let on a vacation home. Interest in training the future writer did not show any, for which he was sent into a closet as punishment. There Balzac opened any book and avidly read it. But frequent stays in the cell of the College has seriously undermined the health of the writer, dad had to take the boy home. After boarding there were two schools that had a similar situation. In the end, the father gave the son the freedom of choice.
5. Thomas Edison
The famous inventor Thomas Edison at school was called a moron. Then the education system involves the rote learning of complex text passages and the invariable penalty of beating with sticks. By the end of first grade Edison was round losers. Subsequent training of the boy was engaged only a mother at home. Many years later, the losers did not get tired to amaze the world with their inventions.
6. Joseph Brodsky
The poet Joseph Brodsky from the beginning hated the Soviet system of education. His school was listed that Joseph homework does not, is rude to teachers, a bully, a bully. After the 6th grade boy practically ceased to appear in the classroom, walking through the streets of Leningrad. After the poet has left in 7th grade for a second year because of underachievement, he did quit school.
