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Famous People with Bad Experiences


 * **__Albert Einstein__ was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.**
 * **As a boy __Thomas Edison__ was told by his teachers that he was too stupid to learn anything.**
 * **__Werner von Braun__ flunked ninth-grade algebra. (One of our most important rocket developers from 1930-1970.)**
 * **__Winston Churchill__ failed the sixth grade.**
 * **__Leo Tolstoy__ flunked out of college. (War and Peace)**
 * **__Louis Pasteur__ was rated mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College. (He later discovered that “germs” cause disease -- got hospitals to become sanitary, invented the pasteurization of milk and cured rabies.)**
 * **__Paul Orfalea__, the founder of Kinko's, failed the 2nd grade twice and was actually labeled as “retarded.”**
 * **__Walt Disney__ was fired by a newspaper editor because he had "no good ideas." (Yeah, Disneyland and cartoons were really bad ideas.)**
 * **__Karen,__ the creator of Coolmath.com,****had to take prealgebra THREE times (7th, 8th and 9th grade) and barely squeaked out a C in Algebra in the 10th grade. Now, now runs one of the biggest educational websites in the world that teaches math to over 150,000 kids a day!**

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