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As you begin the year, that "stupid, annoying student " might have some hidden talent. Look for it!! REMEMBER...

Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil.
Charles Darwin, who began medical career at Edinburgh and gave it up, was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching; you will be a disgrace to yourself and your family."
Carl Jung's teachers considered him to be stupid. He had trouble with mathematics.
Gregor Mendel twice failed the examination in Vienna to qualify him as a teacher.
Albert Einstein's teacher described him as mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in his foolish dreams. He was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.
Amongst other future scientists who did badly at school and showed little promise were Edison, Humblot, Ffesenel, Berzelius, and James Watt.

Among artists who did badly were Joshua Reynold, Gauguin, Turner, Edouard Manet, and Rodin. Rodin's father said, "I have an idiot for a son" his uncle said that the boy was uneducable. The boy was described as the worst pupil in the school, failing three time to secure admittance to the school of art.

Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.
Ludwig van Beethoven's music teacher once said of him as a composer, "He is hopeless."
When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas
Tolstoy flunked out of college.
Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College
Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk as a captain and came out as a private
Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.

Emile Zola, Fontaine, Jonathan Swift, Wordsworth, Honore da Balzac, Hans Christian Anderson, Keats all did poorly in school.

Napoleon Bonaparte left school undistinguished, 42nd in place;

The Duke of Wellington was though by his mother to be the dunce of the family.

Nasser did badly at school and failed to secure entry at a law school and so he entered the army.