[PW] Successful artists who hated school?

[Nichael Cramer]

Bruce Greeley wrote: [...]
>What I have found is more who actually dropped out (though it's 
>still a short list) of Bill Gates, Einstein, Woody Allen, Steven 
>Spielberg and maybe Robert Frost but wonder if anyone has any other 
>ideas, or knows where I might look (for successful folks who hated 
>school but made it through)...?!
>
>"School" meaning, ideally, 'high school' but I'll take anything!

Concerning a couple names on the list:

-- Bill Gates:  I suppose the details of the question are important here,
but  in this case "dropped out" means "quit part way through Harvard",
which is different from "thinking about leaving the 8th grade.

-- Einstein:  I'm not sure what you mean by dropped out; Einstein
completed his doctorate.   (In general, while Einstein might not have
enjoyed some his classwork --in the sense of being bored-- the stories
of his doing particularly badly in school are pretty much an urban legend.
A good source here is Abraham Pais' excellent biography "Subtle is the Lord").

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Nichael Cramer
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