Misinformation ABOUT Albert Einstein

[Clifford Black]

Einstein did NOT flunk math. It’s long been rumored that Einstein was a bad student — and these rumors have been fueled in part by headlines like one in a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!” newspaper: “Greatest living mathematician failed in mathematics.” In fact, Einstein was not a poor student. He was conversant in college physics before he was 11 years old, was a ‘’brilliant’’ violin player, and received high marks in Latin and Greek. Before age 15 he had already mastered calculus.

This is very much like the misinformation that has been indoctrinated into the Children about So-Called black people.

[Clifford Black]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Use the above url as a starting point to investigate and research this scientist so that, just maybe, we can help to get our young people on the right track....!!!!!

[Adam White]

This topic really jumped at me.  On one hand, I see Einstein quoted all the time - and check and find that he never said the words attributed to him.  A culture of misinformation around him definitely exists.

On the other hand, as I contemplated this question I looked if he had ever said anything about standardized tests, which led me to this link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/unanswered-q...

.. wherein the author points out a great many ways that standardized testing is inadequate, but the same author goes on to use one of those mis-attributed quotes from Einstein that he never actually said.

This issue clearly has many layers to pick apart. Currently, I am trying to recall just how early in my life I realized (regarding standardized tests) that the goal was not to take the test - but to play it like a game, interpreting what it seemed like they wanted me to answer. 

[Adam White]

I was able to verify this quote as authentic:

“I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.”

(Read the entire the interview here “What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Vier...; October 26, 1929.)

^-- the above link inside the parentheses is clickable to download a .pdf of the complete interview

[Clifford Black]

Every time that you look, there is the chance that you will see more than you did, the last time that you looked.

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