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> 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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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...

> 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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