NOT all scientists were great students in high school? why ?,?

Question

NOT all scientists were great students in high school? why ?,?

Answer 1

Maybe school was too boring for them since they must be pretty smart and they weren't attentive or interested in class..

Any time a student is seen as not being a perfect student to some teacher's understanding of what a great student is, then they are deemed disruptive or uninterested or a daydreamer...

The truth is that some great minds do get restless and if the class isn't stimulating enough for smarter students then they sometimes do become disruptive, but not on purpose, only because they are bored... or sometimes they daydream because they are so imaginative or don't always pay attention simply because they don't need to...

I've heard of lots of cases where students, esp. younger ones were geniuses but at the time, nobody knew they just thought they had ADHD or some kind of disorder, or simply were bad kids... but that wasn't true at all...

Kids have great imaginations and teaching them early to have manner is great... but demanding that kids and young children behave like adults already is pretty ridiculous and then assuming that they are bad kids or have disorders when it's not true is not right either....

Plus a lot of kids go through high school and just simply don't enjoy it... for plenty of reasons and they blossom when they come into their own after high school.... that is when they can do what they love not what someone tells them to do and they  find their passion and do great things...

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Answer 2

Let's ask a scientist shall we? They all have great quotes, but ask Einstein and he'll say

"Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life."

and

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

and

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

and

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

and

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

People whom we find brilliant, often get there by disregarding social and academic rules, and focusing on how things work. Schools really hate that people can learn outside of their classrooms, and schools really aren't focused on educating as much as they are on moderation.

Answer 3

Lack of maturity, being bored at school, insufficient support from teaching staff, parents disinterested.

Answer 4

People who succeed in school are good at school. Being good at the school thing doesn't necessarily mean you'll be good at anything else.

I know a lot about American history and can write well on the subject, but I do terribly in history classes. In most cases, my mind doesn't work well with the Prussian system.

Answer 5

Scientists such as Michael Faraday and Albert Einstein believed that Science and the Bible DO NOT CLASH. In fact, it gives a more clearer explanation. Take care! God bless!

Answer 6

Becoming great at something usually involves dedication and maturity. Some people do that later in life than others...

Answer 7

they were good at experimenting in our 3d world not writing  and theory which school seems to be about too much.

Answer 8

Well Einstein was dyslexic so perhaps that has something to do with it because of a lack of awareness of how to teach dyslexic children in some schools.  I don't think Steven Hawking would have had a normal schooling and if he did I expect he had some difficulties in accessing main stream education.

Answer 9

They weren't pushed hard enough to use their brains properly.  No challenge just results in bored kids who can't be bothered as they're not getting anything out of it.

Another reason it that specialising in one subject can have a detrimental effect on the other subjects with the pupil paying no attention in lessons that don't cover their area of interest.

Answer 10

Several great scientists, like Einstein and Edison, were dyslexic; their schools insisted that they "learn" in a way that made no sense to them, so they didn't do well there.  Other scientists had/have other learning needs that, like dyslexia, do not mesh well with the standardized teaching methods found in schools.  (Logistically, schools have to have these methods - otherwise, teachers would have no way to give the material to dozens of students every day.)

(Dyslexia is actually a learning style, one that doesn't work well with rote learning, piecemeal information download, and tons of review.  If dyslexic people are given information in a way that makes sense to them, often they will retain it very, very well and will see patterns that do not appear to other people.)

Both Einstein and Edison were basically kicked out of school - Edison's mom was told that he was a dullard incapable of learning when he was about 8, and Einstein was asked not to return after his basic education was over at 16.  Edison's mom proceeded to homeschool him, and Einstein was finally able to learn in a way that made sense to him.

Schools are not set up to teach to everyone - they are set up to teach to kids that fall within a "middle" demographic.  Imagine a number line from 1 to 100 - schools are set up, basically, to try to reach kids that fall between 25 and 75.  (I'm not talking IQ here, it's just a visual.  The demographic numbers could apply to learning style, whether the child learns well in a group, and or/any learning glitches/accelerations.)  

Kids who fall outside that range, for any reason, really don't have much of a chance in school - it's just not designed to meet their needs.  These kids, though they may be brilliant in one way or another, will likely not be good students if forced to learn in a standardized classroom.

Hope that helps!