My sister, a HS Freshman math teacher, tried to cheer up her very first class, who had just all gotten a zero on their first quiz, by telling them the (apocryphal) story about Einstein himself having been a poor math student. A hand went up in the back. “Teacher, if he was so dumb in school and all…how come they called him Einstein?” She opened her mouth…after awhile the bell rang and the students all left…an hour after that she closed her mouth and went home, but she never did come up with a satisfactory answer to the young man’s question.
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