[driftless2]

"did poorly in school"

That old story now appears to be apocryphal. Some people checked records and discovered Einstein had an outstanding academic career. I believe a lot of the stuff about him doing poorly stemmed from educators desire to show underachieving students that even if they didn't do well now, greatness was still within their reach. They held up Einstein as an example. "See, if Einstein was a poor student and later did great things, you can be like Einstein."

[Hank Kerchief]

Yes, you are right, but I was pulling Bernard's leg a little, and thought a little popular myth was not out of place. He himself admitted he did not do so well in middle school because so much of the learning was by rote, which he despised. He was a creative thinker, not a memorizer.

Hank