And then there was the time he wanted to study the rate of growth in a house fire...
I thin the author makes some good point, but I strongly disagree with his assertion that the rate of progress is decaying.
It most certainly is not.
True- I am pretty familiar with Einstein's life, but I do not believe that American schools are being overwhelmed by a plague of kids so brilliant that they just can't be bothered to do the regular schoolwork.
I do think that we are raising the worst-educated generation in the history of this Nation- with consequences that are likely to be unfortunate. And making absurd excuses for these dummies is not going to help, in the long run.
No, he didn't. It was a grading method discrepancy when he changed schools.