Timestamps: 1:03 Timeline, 1:57 High school grades, 3:26 University grades, 10:02 Comparison to classmates, 12:05 Mileva Maric's grades (Einstein's wife), 14:12 Patron Cat of the Day. Links and references are in the description.
Einstein is so relatable when he says that examinations are just something that you cram for and how it makes you lose all interest in actually learning the subject. Good to know that education hasn't changed since then.
Study for the test to only forget it after a few weeks, so pointless and waste of energy. If only we could make education system be a bit more "learn on demand", like when I go to stackoverflow to look for solutions to problems.
Obviously already at the age of 16 (!) he had a clear and strong dedication to physics. He followed his dedication without compromises and with no attempt to make teachers or other authorities happy.
Wish that were possible today but uni now is so full of bloat and courses that have zero relation to your degree but are required to even graduate yet costs hundreds to thousands of dollars.
I've never done this as I'm not bright enough to do so. This had me in deep thought, though: If you're into this type of 'laziness' you gotta have friends who are bright enough to take good notes, or you're both f*cked lol. Lucky, Albert
@@cherrynado I took biology in class 11th (Im from India so I dont know how it is for you) I want to pursue my passion in marine or some other kind of biology, honestly I would have laughed at someone saying something like this to me an year ago but now I dont want to be a doctor. I have no reason to say this to you but I felt like saying this to someone.
@@cherrynado He meant that it's about intelligence and passion, not grades specifically. But typically if your grades are high you are intelligent. Especially in stem subjects.
@@xxbouncer19xx nah Einstein was highly gifted with ADD, or as stupid teachers would say, an arrogant dreamer who thinks high of himself cause he thinks he has revolutuonary insights..which in his case he had
I wonder how many ppl wonder ^^ back then only very few genius ppl could go at all to school, or even university. Nowadays it's almost standard, and a lot of things are less conservative than back then. Still too conservative, but no comparison
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein
That’s funny, cause I’m a German student and 6 is literally the worst grade you can get today and 1 is the best, I was totally confused and shocked at first 😂
@@oliviabenson6624 I think they have points in Switzerland, i used to have a Swiss boy in my class and he told us that their Notensystem is the same one as the french one, I think
@@Emeskay05 I guess it depends which region in Switzerland we're talking about. I live in Kanton Zürich and our grading system is more or less just the German one but inverted, 1 being the worst and 6 being the best.
@@Emeskay05 No he was not. He was German. They moved to Switzerland. The fact that Swiss grades are reversed to German grades is the reason why the urban legend of the "terrible student Einstein" emerged. Einstein was in fact a very good student.
As someone who is currently studying/struggling at ETH, it's actually really reassuring to see that Einstein himself didn't even get that good grades there.
Kennst du noch Schloss Einstein, das Intro? Denn Einstein hatte, nur ne 4 in Mathe... uhm nahhh. He actually has a 6 in Algebra, Geometrie und Darstellende Geometrie, genauso wie physik. RECHERCHE 😂
So? He didn’t go to class, so he deserved the 1. You don’t get good grades for your “intelligence.” It doesn’t mean that Einstein wasn’t smart, it was just because he didn’t earn it in that class. Simple as that.
r o x a n n e .r e y e s Imo, you get grades for demonstrating your “intelligence” and understanding of the subject (I put intelligence in air quotes because intelligence can be viewed from many angles and not everyone will equate academic success with intelligence)
I like how a 6 and 5, litterally the closest you can get to a perfect score is reffered to as a "fairly high score". Nowaydays only perfect scores get recognition, at Einsteins time those scores were so much harder to achieve.
it was French, nobody cares about language if you understand it, know how to read it, understand it(but don't need for writing anything). Then, a 3 isn't too bad
He was a bad student. He was also gifted at the same time. Being a bad student doesn't mean you don't get good grades it means you don't follow academia rules, but yourself and it's clear Einstein did what he felt like and not what his school prescribed for him which is the absolute nightmare of modern academia. He wasn't perfect probably because he thought his assignments were stupid, so he didn't bother to do them and that's indeed an awful student. Just because Einstein is gifted and got good grades doesn't mean he was a good or average student it means he performed well at that which he was gifted at and cared about; he may of been an exceptional student of physics, but he was no good student in the general sense of the word.
One cannot reduce a student to a set of grades. Einstien wasn't an exceptional student... But yet he was clearly a Genius! He also taught himself the necessary mathematics to forge his theories on Relativity *after* leaving University. I.e. Einstien flourish when he left mainstream academia... When he was free to educate himself and pursue his interests. So forget grades! What it all boils down to at the end of the day, is Discipline, Hardwork and the willingness to pursue your Dreams... At *any* cost! Being a Genius helps too of course, but I believe that the more you push brain, the stronger and more efficient it becomes! And sure, some have to push harder than others, but anyone can achieve Great Things if they put their minds to it.... And that is precisely why Einstein is, and shall always be, a Hero and an Inspiration to me!
Probableyproud??? The whole point of this vid is to show people that he got good grades, especially in the maths and physics. Contrary to general perceptions throughout his life. When Einstein became famous in his early twenties, these beliefs were so universal that in frustration one of his elementary teachers hauled out report cards and showed people there beliefs were not true.
It's really interesting to me how Einstein isn't this super genius who is always right, he's just a regular genius who's always right about a very specific set of things.
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@@vision3439 it really does depend, my school's averages are always about 75% and everyone is really really smart and the school is top rank i was actually so shocked that in certain places people get like 90s for nothing
My bachelor grades are pretty bad, but considering that I rarely studied I did quite well. Have 3 exams left, hopefully starting my masters in October where I know I'll do better. Covid, the loss of several family members and laziness have lowered my grades.
Some background information on why some people would think that Einstein was a bad student: In today's Germany, 6 is the worst grade you can get while 1 is the best. That is reversed in Switzerland. When people look at Einstein's grades today and don't know that, they naturally would assume that he was really bad. Also, greetings from Ulm, Germany, the birthplace of Albert Einstein. :)
that's misleading - because only grades 4-6 are pass grades in Switzerland, so he was actually quite bad in the first year of university, and failed in school French - but that isn't a subject you are required to pass in order to get promoted to the next years or finish high school.
@@petahawk I see. Seems stricter than in Germany. Here, 1-4 are pass grades. Anyway, 6 is good no matter what the pass grades are and in Germany the myth focuses on Einstein being bad at mathematics in school.
petahawk you need to have less than 1.5 points below a 4 (or 2 points if you have an average above a 4.3) . It doesn’t matter in which subjects you are below a 4, you are just not allowed to have 1.5 (or 2) points below a 4.
The myth that Einstein had poor grades in high school was perpetrated when I was in high school (early 70's - yes I'm old). It's nice to see that myth dispelled as I believed it for years.
he was quite bad because people need to understand that 4 is the lowest pass grade in Switzerland - so he had multiple quite bad grades throughout the years and even failed in school French with a 3.
Your researches in physics and math are quite important, even profound: because you insist on starting with the primary documents. I hope you continue with these investigations- you are surely an inspiring and fascinating student;I have been watching your material for years, and I have always been able to find gems within the vast material you explore! Thank you!
I can imagine the myth comes from the fact that today in Germany, 1 is the highest grade and 6 is the lowest. He's also said to have been dyslexic, so as a fellow German with dyslexia I feel that 3 in French 😂
Einstein was a genius because he focused on perfecting his passion and interest for science. He didn’t put energy in things that didn’t interest him. I’m slowly starting to realize that for myself as well 💡
Cinnamon is just jealous or something or maybe he’s just having a bad day and if he’s having a bad day then i would recommend y’all to leave him/her be.
@@s.m3094 Cinnamon Swirl probably means that peaks is trying to call herself an undeveloped genius. There is nothing worse in society than someone who calls himself a genius although he/she isn't.
Micah Armstrong it wasn’t 5 and 7, it was the average mark; 5.7. In most countries in Europe they write 5.7 as 5,7. That’s why they said he had the highest mark; Grossmann had 5.6
as a physics student at ETH it`s so interesting to see how the lectures and subjects were organized and called back then.. and i feel pretty good about him having not so much higher grades than me ^^ (i`m in the first year)
“EVERYONE IS A GENIUS! But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein.
@@easytoremembereasytodelete958 It is a very well-known fact that he did say this. Or at least the fish part, I’m not so sure about the “Everyone is a genius”
Elendiger Sohn Well, that must be extremely recent then, because I went to school and Uni in Switzerland and until a few years ago, 6 was still the best grade
the dashes often mean : Kurs besucht wich means something like : Attended lectures / attended lessons. these mostly are subjects that wont be important for grades so there is no grading but just a dash
"I actually had an extremely high IQ and aced maths and physics, but dumb morons with below average IQ pretend that I was stupid so that they can make themselves feel better."- Albert Einstein.
@tibees One possible explanation, why one often hears, that Einstein was bad at school ist the difference between the marks in Switzerland and Germany. In Switzerland, the Marks translate like this: 1: Very bad, 2: bad, 3: insufficient, 4: sufficient, 5: good, 6: very good. In Germany, the Marks translate like this: 1: Very good, 2: good, 3: satisfying, 4: sufficient, 5: inadequate 6: insufficient.
@unknowning unknown ffs of course there isnt gonna be real pi day smartass. Pi time will happen at some point in pi day though. 3 months into the year, 14 days into the month, 15 years into the century, 9th century you get the point. You could knock this down to fractions of the second if you go the other way around with hours minutes seconds forever getting smaller until you reach the sweet spot that is pi. If you're so smart (or at least you try to look so smart) then why don't you recite me 100 digits of pi? r/iamverysmart
Einstein is proof that you don't need to get all A's in a class to be considered a genius, one failing grade isn't going to kill you. Unless you're in an Asian household ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
Just Some Guy without a Mustache Don’t know what planet you are living on but when did high school grades ever quantify whether you were a genius? Diligent student, yes, not a genius
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yo shout out to my guy Grossman, my man not only was being a true homie to einstein but also was a genius himself who tied for second-highest under einstein. he will go down in history as being a genius himself and being one of the realest bois a boi could ever wish to have
@Corvus Morve aye all imma say is u might be related to the realest boi there was
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Marcel Grossmann made a career in education, becoming a university professor, organizing summer schools for high school teachers, and founding the Swiss Mathematical Society.
(I haven't watched the video yet so I'm sorry if it is in it) Einstein having bad grades started because a german researcher looked at Einstein's grades in Switzerland and assumed they have the same grading system as germany (where 1 is the best grade and 6 the worst) but in Switzerland 1 is the worst and 6 the best.
Fun fact: Albert Einstein didnt though he was smartest man alive since in one interview he was asked how does it fell to be most smartest man alive, he answered: "I don't know, ask Nikola Tesla." Nikola Tesla is Serbian Worldwide known scientist who without him, we would still have to use DC power becouse he found out about AC the power we use for our computers, fridgerators, light etc. We still use DC in other things btw.
Yeah he’s mad weird💀💀 he’d be that smart emo boy who shows up to class once every two years and he’d probably sit in the back and tell you about how he saw someone get deep fried on the dark web💀💀
Tbh he sounds like a fraud. He could have easily stole ideas from the patent publication office he worked at, revised them and published it himself. Judging by his character, seems like he snaked his way up. I could be wrong but it would be hilarious if it were true.. the suspicion is there in comedy already.
So for all who dont know in Switzerland all grades below 4 are failing grades, so Einstein actually failed french, something he shares with many other swiss pupils
Nice video. You manner of speech is very pleasant on the ear. Calm and direct. Much respect for your work. Respectfully a fan from Kentucky in the USA. William Matthew
@@mochimmy3724 Meh, do it! Don't hang too much hope on any one thing, but always try your best and reach the highest you can if that's what you want ;)
his not getting a job after getting the best scores is proof education is not just about studying, you have to socialize and interact too. and plan further in the future i guess
@@maimoonakhan7203 Brown nosing your professors is a useful career tactic if you want a future in the university as a professor. If you are too intelligent, they begin to fear their future access to grants with you as their competition.
Believe me or not, I did the same thing! I was soo poor at taking notes back in school days because It did not interest me and I found that It was wasting my time out of the main core purpose of education because I prefer practical knowledge than notes, and book readings! So what I used to do is simply take photo copy of over 300-400 pages of classmate’s notes. And I studied from them! I did this entire high school and college. Lucky me I always got a friend with good notes. Overall I ended up with like 8.5/10 hah! When I watch this, It’s soo relatable 100%
Tbf, irl, he probably didn't mind. Best homie genius if you ask me. Without him Einstein might've been set back for a couple of years. Or maybe never have found a job.
What amazes me is not that the first biographer assumed the notes being based on the German school system where 1 is the best note and 5 or later 6 the worst. What amazes me is that he didn’t immediately realize his assumption had to be wrong because with so terrible notes Einstein wouldn’t have been able to go to the next class let alone university.
@@Z3t487 No relation at all. I got my reports in the end of the 90s (in French school). Teachers did not use computers, but their handwriting and they did not write in such a way. They were instead writing very fast. America and Anglo saxon world with their capitalism had already spilled its venom in Europe with their motto ""time is money""
Because, your youtube recommendations want to tell you that grades don’t determine your intelligence but that doesn’t mean that you are not supposed to study.
we here in Germany have like 15 subjects depends on your grade German English Math‘s France/IT/Special economics ( I don’t quite know how tho call this subject in English) are main Subjects we have to take 4 big exams in a year in those (+tests, oral grade etc.) Then there are the other subjects Biologie, Chemistry,Physics,History,Art, Music,Geographie,Economics again, politic‘s and sports In those we have to take two big exams in a year. So yeah German school systems are pretty rough
Chair // CHair 6-7 classes would be normal for the US state I grew up in. Core requirements: 4 years English 3-4 years Mathematics (depending on what level you start with) 2-3 years Foreign Language (generally Spanish, again years required depend on your starting level) 1 year Biology 1 year Chemistry 3 years History 1 year Art And then your remaining classes are filled out with electives according to your interests. I think it ends up being not so different. Just with certain subjects concentrated over a year instead of spread out over all of secondary school. My electives, if I remember correctly, gave me two additional foreign languages, 2 years of physics, and an additional year each of chemistry and biology. Ultimately for me pretty comparable to a German secondary education (from what I understand), although with less economics (some was covered in history/math) and no computer science.
I felt the same way when I was in school. Luckily, I could sit in lectures and absorb enough to get passing grades with little other effort. Instead, I applied myself to outside interests, mostly electronics (ham radio and digital logic), and then computer programming.
A thing to mention considering his grades, especially in french at the end of Highschool is that he switched schools from his former Highschool in münchen to the Alte Kantonschule Aarau ( the old Kantonsschool in Aarau, a city in the Kanton of Aargau). The other students had already had 7 years of french when he joined for the last year of highschool. The fact that he accomplished to even get a 3 in french im that year shows how good a student he really was. I know all of this because im actually in the last year of the Highschool he graduated at in Aarau.
He wasn't the smartest man, not of his time nor all time. Einstein set the mark for genius at around 160 IQ. Others have set the mark for hyper intelligence at around 200 IQ.
@@NeonGen2000 You have to take into account all of what he achieved. Nobody is comparable to Einstein in this regard. If we ever get another Einstein then the entire world will be transformed again beyond recognition. Without Einstein computing for example would still be in its infancy in 2020. His work led to massive technological developments in so many fields.
@@MICKEYISLOWD "Without Einstein computing for example would still be in its infancy in 2020" There is no way for you to back this up. Einstein filled a gap. There is no telling someone else wouldn't have filled it in that time. I guess we should define our terms. How do you define "smart"? I based it purely on general intelligence.
As a student living inSwitzerland, I know how hard it is to get good grades. Especially in ETH, which is probably in the top 10 hardest school to get in & graduate from, in the world. Even having a 4 in ETH is considered to be a 6 in other universities.
His genius strength was not in doing calculations so it isn’t surprising his test scores weren’t perfect. His intuition was what was beyond everyone else, but that doesn’t help with calculation errors or just plain forgetting things because you didn’t study. The only scores that were actually low were due to spending much more time studying things that interested him at the expense of things he didn’t care for and didn’t even bother showing up for.
@@atharvakapade They did a ton of statmech, electromagnetics, classic field theory back then. Not to mention all the extra math which is considered not useful for Physicists today. I really wouldn't wanna be a physicist back then rather than now.
maybe the teacher just didn't understand his answers. in any way, he was probably just interested in the field and naturally got those grades, you can already tell by him not attending to the practical lecture how much he cared about grades/the school. he just wanted to learn and pick up what's useful to him.
This probably gets lost in the comments but im from switzerland and i feel like those grades need some further context. It is true that 6 is the best and 1 the worst, however 4 means barely passed. Everything below 4 is failed so a 3 in french on his first report sheet means he failes french, 4, 4 1/2 and 5es makes him an extremly average student. Not saying he was, just saying how to read those grades.
I see like training martial arts. You can be very talented but lack of effort will bring the same result as someone with no talent who tried so hard. For example a top 10% and bottom 10% and 80% range where hard work can bring incredible results
Well, I'm from Switzerland too and I only partly agree with your opinion. In my opinion you can't evaluate an average of e. g 4.5 as an average student. It's relative to where you passed your exams. For example if you pass your secondary school with an average of 5.5 it's considered very good and a 4.5 would only be fairly good. While at ETH the scale becomes very different because of the difficulty of the subjects themselves and the difficulty and hardships that ETH brings with it. In the case of ETH an average of 4.5 in your semester notes might be very good.
@@barboracelkova1740 u have that in other systems too. A B C D E F, usually D E F is fail, and ABC is pass. Very rarely is D a pass and that would be very weird since getting D usually means u didnt learn much.
I found that my university lecturers were so bad that my chances of passing a course were inversely proportional to the amount of time spent in lectures. I had to teach myself to get through university.
My mom also skipped a lot of lectures back in the day and had to study by herself, sometimes it's better to skip a lecture if the professor doesn't know how to teach and learn by ourselves
Just to make things clearer: 6 means very good (best grade possible), 5 means good, 4 means good enough for passing, everything under 4 is failing the class. To score an average grade of 5.7 is incredible, considering the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich is the toughest university in Switzerland.
This demonastrates that being good at school doesn't alsways mean being intelligent. One of the problems with the educational system in my country is that it mainly concentrates on memory (except from math and physics of course). I would really like to see a reform of the educational system where logic processes are implemented and creativity gets more space.
it keeps the focus on memory to keep the working class stagnated with working factory lvl jobs, which memory is vital for following instructions for such jobs.
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Timestamps: 1:03 Timeline, 1:57 High school grades, 3:26 University grades, 10:02 Comparison to classmates, 12:05 Mileva Maric's grades (Einstein's wife), 14:12 Patron Cat of the Day.
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God bless TH-camrs like you .
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Hi tibee how are you
This guy Einstein has really good grades in physics. He looks like he could be a great physicist one day
This video seems to explain the life of a friend in physics lmao but we cannot really compare the fields today and in the past
Oh what do you think he became 😂
Corny overused joke
@@sparshdancing4130 whoosh
I don’t think you understand the gravity of your statement. “Great” is a relative term; generally speaking.
Einstein after exams: who cares about my grades.
Tibees 100 years later- yes
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Lol
*I didn't know that ppl in the 21st century would care...*
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Einstein is so relatable when he says that examinations are just something that you cram for and how it makes you lose all interest in actually learning the subject. Good to know that education hasn't changed since then.
Watching this while cramming for a math test lololol
@InSpaceDude even if you have 200 iq but without the certificate you can't get a job
Study for the test to only forget it after a few weeks, so pointless and waste of energy.
If only we could make education system be a bit more "learn on demand", like when I go to stackoverflow to look for solutions to problems.
Ikr
@@drened8502 saaaaaame😂
Obviously already at the age of 16 (!) he had a clear and strong dedication to physics. He followed his dedication without compromises and with no attempt to make teachers or other authorities happy.
Wish that were possible today but uni now is so full of bloat and courses that have zero relation to your degree but are required to even graduate yet costs hundreds to thousands of dollars.
@@nervonabliss Uni is overrated.
why is your profile pic the same as tedward
well you cant get a job without it sooo@@followerofchrist3125
it's not the same@@shreygaming2333
"he skipped class and got notes from his friends"
ah, I guess Einstein and I are not so different
This is so me 😂
I've never done this as I'm not bright enough to do so. This had me in deep thought, though: If you're into this type of 'laziness' you gotta have friends who are bright enough to take good notes, or you're both f*cked lol. Lucky, Albert
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yes you are :`D
There’s something called a joke 😳
teachers : einstien u could have scored better
also teachers (after a few years) : stuggling to understand einstien's thesis
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Imagine being so intelligent that ur name becomes a synonym for Intelligence :o
Can't relate
Can relate
@@Ghoulaze r/iamverysmart
Can’t relate
Bro Im kira
I think it's not about the grades.. It's where the passion lays
Its both bruh
Ya think
@@cherrynado I took biology in class 11th (Im from India so I dont know how it is for you) I want to pursue my passion in marine or some other kind of biology, honestly I would have laughed at someone saying something like this to me an year ago but now I dont want to be a doctor. I have no reason to say this to you but I felt like saying this to someone.
@@cherrynado He meant that it's about intelligence and passion, not grades specifically. But typically if your grades are high you are intelligent. Especially in stem subjects.
Very true, most people can get good grades if they try even if they aren't smart
Teacher: "Who do you think you are, Einstein?"
Einstein: "Yes, yes I am."
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3 times 3 times 3 equals cube
Cube=Saturn =Satan
@@kennydoneit1482 mate i think you got a case of galaxy brain
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@@kennydoneit1482 Satan=Master oft this World
I wonder how many Einsteins never fully develop as a result of our system.
Caleb I wonder too 😕
They're called autistic, high potential, bipolar , psychotic now
I seem to have managed...
@@xxbouncer19xx nah Einstein was highly gifted with ADD, or as stupid teachers would say, an arrogant dreamer who thinks high of himself cause he thinks he has revolutuonary insights..which in his case he had
I wonder how many ppl wonder ^^
back then only very few genius ppl could go at all to school, or even university. Nowadays it's almost standard, and a lot of things are less conservative than back then. Still too conservative, but no comparison
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
-Albert Einstein
Great line..just just need to find your area
@@mrp9404 when you find your area after being labeled stupid, you get called crazy.
@@Daniel-ve3sc Damn those people thinking killing children wasn't a sport!
Sounds like something karen would post to recruit people into her mlm
Well damn.....then the tree I'm told to trying climb must be really fucking huge
I don't know why I expected to feel better about my grades after this
I feel you. We're stuck in the belly of the bell curve.
I know 😢
People who got a 4 on french:
“Guess im smarter than Einstein”
Lol nowadays atleast in Finland that would be the lowest possible
"french people laugh"
Actually today a 3 is better than 4 in germany.
More like : « Je suppose que je suis meilleur que Einstein »
Well I am dislexic soo, guess I am going to aim for getting a equal score in physics.
That’s funny, cause I’m a German student and 6 is literally the worst grade you can get today and 1 is the best, I was totally confused and shocked at first 😂
yeah but isn't the Notensystem in Switzerland the other way around (from the German one) still today...?
@@oliviabenson6624 I think they have points in Switzerland, i used to have a Swiss boy in my class and he told us that their Notensystem is the same one as the french one, I think
@@Emeskay05 I guess it depends which region in Switzerland we're talking about. I live in Kanton Zürich and our grading system is more or less just the German one but inverted, 1 being the worst and 6 being the best.
@@empi955 ohh that’s interesting!! He was Swiss German, but I don‘t know from which part he was exactly from
@@Emeskay05 No he was not. He was German. They moved to Switzerland. The fact that Swiss grades are reversed to German grades is the reason why the urban legend of the "terrible student Einstein" emerged. Einstein was in fact a very good student.
Einstein parents: you could have done better!
Einstein: Calm down, its not like im einstein or something!
*Laying down a woooosh trap*
Jai Bellare xd
IAmDaJo no need to comment then?
@@discreet_boson which has proved useless...
@hello S r/whooooshwith4os
And no exclamation mark
The fact that Einstein had such good grades even though he hated school is the biggest flex 💪🤣
Imagine ppl focusing on what u got on your grades. Even after u died.
Bruh this was just a video showing his grades, relax kid
You act as if this was the worse thing people have done after he died🤦🏻♂️
died laughing sorryHAHRSHA
@@joonatanhukkanen4143 This isn’t Reddit so that’s like 2 facepalms 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ and what if my comment was a joke? r/woooosh
@@obesebutimcute2414 what
I've decided never to become famous if people are going to just casually dig up my grades like this.
i mean, they kind of have a use, they kind of quantify your understanding and effort on school.
Lmao😂
@Super Cool and you are literally commented under a video about a successful persons grades.
Thats why is u ever become famous burn them up AND SAVE THE HIGHEST GRADEs.
Don't worry, you won't be famous.
POV: We are Einsteins parents in his Parent conference meeting
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Lmao my reaction is your profile pic
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As someone who is currently studying/struggling at ETH, it's actually really reassuring to see that Einstein himself didn't even get that good grades there.
maybe watch the video? he got REALLY good grades.
not REALLY, they were just good but not exceptional@@pongmaster123
Um anyone gonna tell him
What are you studying? I am currently in first year of CS at ETH
Fortunately for me, I speak some German
Unfortunately, I can’t read cursive
Fortunately, I am German
Unfortunately, I have to agree that you can hardly decipher the handwriting at some points😅
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Kennst du noch Schloss Einstein, das Intro? Denn Einstein hatte, nur ne 4 in Mathe... uhm nahhh. He actually has a 6 in Algebra, Geometrie und Darstellende Geometrie, genauso wie physik. RECHERCHE 😂
I do both lol
@@elenahottenroth4665 Genau daran dachte ich auch😂
Friends trying to cheer you up: Oh, don't worry, nobody is gonna remember or care about you getting ONE D in math one time.
Us, a century later:
XDXDXD
1 would be an F though.
@@carlitosaqui It's it strange that there is no E but it skips down to F?
F just sounds harsher , it's for the effect
Lol
Imagine being a techer that gave 1 to Albert Einstein.
=DD imagine being kids of that teacher
@@vladislavgorshkov737 lol the kid not even know the work of the parent.
So? He didn’t go to class, so he deserved the 1. You don’t get good grades for your “intelligence.” It doesn’t mean that Einstein wasn’t smart, it was just because he didn’t earn it in that class. Simple as that.
CaptDF97 yeah you do get grades for your intelligence correct me if I’m wrong but that’s how it works at my school 🤷🏻♀️
r o x a n n e .r e y e s Imo, you get grades for demonstrating your “intelligence” and understanding of the subject (I put intelligence in air quotes because intelligence can be viewed from many angles and not everyone will equate academic success with intelligence)
I like how a 6 and 5, litterally the closest you can get to a perfect score is reffered to as a "fairly high score". Nowaydays only perfect scores get recognition, at Einsteins time those scores were so much harder to achieve.
Einstein "a 3, pff its fine who is going to look at my grades anyways " 124 years later 2:40
lmfao
ahah omg
it was French, nobody cares about language if you understand it, know how to read it, understand it(but don't need for writing anything). Then, a 3 isn't too bad
Feels like we just violated him
He also got a 1 which is 16% ooof
> Einstein was actually a good student.
Hopes destroyed, delusions shattered.
It's never too late to learn more about the things you're interested in : )
LOL!
You´re not likely to disclose the uncharted by following the paved road.
He was a bad student. He was also gifted at the same time. Being a bad student doesn't mean you don't get good grades it means you don't follow academia rules, but yourself and it's clear Einstein did what he felt like and not what his school prescribed for him which is the absolute nightmare of modern academia. He wasn't perfect probably because he thought his assignments were stupid, so he didn't bother to do them and that's indeed an awful student. Just because Einstein is gifted and got good grades doesn't mean he was a good or average student it means he performed well at that which he was gifted at and cared about; he may of been an exceptional student of physics, but he was no good student in the general sense of the word.
One cannot reduce a student to a set of grades. Einstien wasn't an exceptional student... But yet he was clearly a Genius! He also taught himself the necessary mathematics to forge his theories on Relativity *after* leaving University. I.e. Einstien flourish when he left mainstream academia... When he was free to educate himself and pursue his interests.
So forget grades! What it all boils down to at the end of the day, is Discipline, Hardwork and the willingness to pursue your Dreams... At *any* cost!
Being a Genius helps too of course, but I believe that the more you push brain, the stronger and more efficient it becomes! And sure, some have to push harder than others, but anyone can achieve Great Things if they put their minds to it....
And that is precisely why Einstein is, and shall always be, a Hero and an Inspiration to me!
Imagine how the teachers and his friends must have felt after Einstein was known all over the world for making remarkable discoveries.
Probableyproud??? The whole point of this vid is to show people that he got good grades, especially in the maths and physics. Contrary to general perceptions throughout his life. When Einstein became famous in his early twenties, these beliefs were so universal that in frustration one of his elementary teachers hauled out report cards and showed people there beliefs were not true.
You tell me you disgusting peasant. How would they have felt?
@@michaelpark5681 calm down
@@adityabhalekar3506 well hes literally named "starsintrash"
Ok
It's really interesting to me how Einstein isn't this super genius who is always right, he's just a regular genius who's always right about a very specific set of things.
Jesus Loves you ❤️
Yes you❤️
Aaa yes
I WAS JUST THINKING BOUT THIS
You mean my C
Dror Levi being born is only an achievement because you are the fastest sperm. That’s the only “given” you get for sure. The rest is up to you.
@@ritsukukukuikuiristu7472 D, take it or leave it,
JK, youre getting an A
Dude we gotta bring these fancy ass fonts back im sick of Ariel.
Turi Caederynmab bring it back
They're 'fancy' because they're handwritten!
The 'fonts' are all serif fonts, fairly standard. The 'fancy' stuff is hand written calligraphy.
TNR is the elite font...we all know the truth.
@@AustinBartunek That is the most classic serif font, for sure.
His report card was still better than 90% of people..
Vicki Veer Hi what photo I'D over phone?
Can I go to branch myself on behalf of the kid with their 100pts ID?
And why next 6 months I don't know about.
I was hoping to be able send photo of all ID via Email to someone like yourself, or upload all kid's ID to the parent's Centrelink portal for team to verify.
You know, to avoid the queues with people. And school Term2 is starting again next week.
I am already registered nominee/brother.
WAIT, REALLY??? WHAT TYPE OF SCHOOL DO YOU GO TO?
@@vision3439 it really does depend, my school's averages are always about 75% and everyone is really really smart and the school is top rank i was actually so shocked that in certain places people get like 90s for nothing
@@mariazilic its all pay2win in the end at some places
Top 1% lol
My bachelor grades are pretty bad, but considering that I rarely studied I did quite well. Have 3 exams left, hopefully starting my masters in October where I know I'll do better. Covid, the loss of several family members and laziness have lowered my grades.
Sorry for your loss. Good luck in graduate school.
Imagine being the guy who Einstein would take notes from, you must have the biggest ego ever
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Einstein kinda learned it from me"
LOL
LOL
LOL
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Lol
Some background information on why some people would think that Einstein was a bad student:
In today's Germany, 6 is the worst grade you can get while 1 is the best. That is reversed in Switzerland. When people look at Einstein's grades today and don't know that, they naturally would assume that he was really bad.
Also, greetings from Ulm, Germany, the birthplace of Albert Einstein. :)
A perfect score would be 6666666666.. hmmm i see the obsession of number 6 since time immemorial 😂😂
that's misleading - because only grades 4-6 are pass grades in Switzerland, so he was actually quite bad in the first year of university, and failed in school French - but that isn't a subject you are required to pass in order to get promoted to the next years or finish high school.
@@petahawk I see. Seems stricter than in Germany. Here, 1-4 are pass grades. Anyway, 6 is good no matter what the pass grades are and in Germany the myth focuses on Einstein being bad at mathematics in school.
Kuma
It’s not stricter, it’s a different scale. Two very different things.
petahawk you need to have less than 1.5 points below a 4 (or 2 points if you have an average above a 4.3) . It doesn’t matter in which subjects you are below a 4, you are just not allowed to have 1.5 (or 2) points below a 4.
The myth that Einstein had poor grades in high school was perpetrated when I was in high school (early 70's - yes I'm old). It's nice to see that myth dispelled as I believed it for years.
As far as I am concerned 6 in Germany is like the lowest you can get. I do not have sound on so cannot hear what the girl is saying.
he was quite bad because people need to understand that 4 is the lowest pass grade in Switzerland - so he had multiple quite bad grades throughout the years and even failed in school French with a 3.
I agree. You are old.
@xrv0 He went to school in Switzerland, not Germany. The grading system still applies for today.
xrv0 it not high school, in the first place. It’s polytechnic university - ETH
Your researches in physics and math are quite important, even profound: because you insist on starting with the primary documents. I hope you continue with these investigations- you are surely an inspiring and fascinating student;I have been watching your material for years, and I have always been able to find gems within the vast material you explore! Thank you!
“he skipped class and got notes from his friends”
i suppose great minds really do think alike
You too got disgusted by studies the year after ? And then the year after, and again the year after...
Nobody:
TH-cam: wanna see Einstein’s grade.
Everybody: Thank you TH-cam.
why not
Literally what happened. I was like okay why not
Yes
Ok
I can imagine the myth comes from the fact that today in Germany, 1 is the highest grade and 6 is the lowest. He's also said to have been dyslexic, so as a fellow German with dyslexia I feel that 3 in French 😂
richtig
Whats dyslexia
@@zzzzzz-mv6iu it’s a learning disability were you’ve problems with writing/reading
French is a struggle for many Swiss students
in Russia it actually has been reversed.
My mom told me about it as we came from Russia that a 5 is what a 1 is in Germany today.
and so on
Relativity also applies here: grades are a subjective measure relative to the teacher's reference frame
Clever lol
Einstein was a genius because he focused on perfecting his passion and interest for science. He didn’t put energy in things that didn’t interest him.
I’m slowly starting to realize that for myself as well 💡
Cinnamon Swirl yea, what's wrong with u?
Cinnamon is just jealous or something or maybe he’s just having a bad day and if he’s having a bad day then i would recommend y’all to leave him/her be.
@@s.m3094 Cinnamon Swirl probably means that peaks is trying to call herself an undeveloped genius. There is nothing worse in society than someone who calls himself a genius although he/she isn't.
My teachers hate on me for doing just that lol idk.
And your ideia just opened the door to be inside my mind.
His grades are solid, but he’s no Einstein
His grades are Einstein's, but he's no solid
@@Depleted-Uranium His Einsteins are solid, but he's no grades.
@@purefatdude2 His solids are grades, but Einstein's no he
Someone find the melting point of Einstein's grades to test how solid they are.
Einstein is solid but these are no grades
"The highest possible mark is a 6"
Also Einstein: *7*
Micah Armstrong it wasn’t 5 and 7, it was the average mark; 5.7. In most countries in Europe they write 5.7 as 5,7. That’s why they said he had the highest mark; Grossmann had 5.6
@@camelliasinensis219 it would've been funny if it were a 7 tho
@@camelliasinensis219 right
Einstein went to school in Germany. In Germany 6 is an F the lowest mark possible. The best grade (A) is 1.
@@blackforest_fairy Wat. NO WAY. IMMA SEARCH THIS UP
as a physics student at ETH it`s so interesting to see how the lectures and subjects were organized and called back then.. and i feel pretty good about him having not so much higher grades than me ^^ (i`m in the first year)
“EVERYONE IS A GENIUS! But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein.
Believe if everyone understands this we would soon live in a new galaxy
He never said that lmao
@@easytoremembereasytodelete958 It is a very well-known fact that he did say this. Or at least the fish part, I’m not so sure about the “Everyone is a genius”
what if the fish evolves
@@lottapitchy9625 nop, this phrase doesn't was said by einstein, this phrase is from a book
"6 is the best score"
*Confused german screaming*
He went to school in Switzerland, not Germany. The grades system is still the same today: 6 is besr, 1 is worst. In Germany vica versa
@@yoshinski2745 Still is
Elendiger Sohn Well, that must be extremely recent then, because I went to school and Uni in Switzerland and until a few years ago, 6 was still the best grade
Elendiger Sohn yeah, but the video is about in Switzerland :)
In switzerland it is. (Zurich is not germany!!)
I'm surprised no one is talking about Grossmann and his simple acts of kindness that snowballed into something that changed the world
Yes. i like that
*Grossmann
@@Anton-gr1cf thank you!
Einstein dedicated his Ph D. Thesis to his dear friend Grossmann
@@PADARM oh, thats really nice to know :)
the dashes often mean : Kurs besucht wich means something like : Attended lectures / attended lessons. these mostly are subjects that wont be important for grades so there is no grading but just a dash
Even Einstein was struggling with French...ahhh now that makes me feel a lot better lol
It was always such a hard language :(
@@alberteinstein3612 🙏🙏 Einstein hajurba
even the French struggle with French
@@EdgeOfLight As a French, this is really accurate. Some people don't know how to write the language now, and sometimes even struggle to speak it.
It's more accurate to say that he probably didn't care about French that much.
Forget about the grades look at the handwriting omg 😍
Yes it's quite different 😃😃👍👍
What?
they really overused cursive in the old days wow
@@ddd6409 You learned cursive in first grade? Cool
@@brainfartstudios2829 every student in germany learns cursive writing
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” ~Albert Einstein
So true
@*Floofy shibe*
𝓘𝓷𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓸𝓷𝓮
-Albert einstein
"I actually had an extremely high IQ and aced maths and physics, but dumb morons with below average IQ pretend that I was stupid so that they can make themselves feel better."- Albert Einstein.
@@umarkala1371 😂😂
Yeah Einstein did not say it, an interviewer said this line and he only agreed on it!
@tibees
One possible explanation, why one often hears, that Einstein was bad at school ist the difference between the marks in Switzerland and Germany.
In Switzerland, the Marks translate like this:
1: Very bad, 2: bad, 3: insufficient, 4: sufficient, 5: good, 6: very good.
In Germany, the Marks translate like this:
1: Very good, 2: good, 3: satisfying, 4: sufficient, 5: inadequate 6: insufficient.
When you realize that Einstein was born on pi day.... then you remember that Stephen Hawking passed away on the same day...
@unknowning unknown well its just march 14th. 3.14 like come on.
@unknowning unknown ffs of course there isnt gonna be real pi day smartass. Pi time will happen at some point in pi day though. 3 months into the year, 14 days into the month, 15 years into the century, 9th century you get the point. You could knock this down to fractions of the second if you go the other way around with hours minutes seconds forever getting smaller until you reach the sweet spot that is pi. If you're so smart (or at least you try to look so smart) then why don't you recite me 100 digits of pi?
r/iamverysmart
@unknowning unknown also, its not a waste of time if you have fun doing so.
@@weeb69 Einstein would've said this is stupid
@@astraightfemalewhodoesntma674 which one exactly?
*people like grossmann are the best people, kind hearts, pure souls and always here to help :)*
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He failed the entrance exam.
Now peoples failing entrance exam cz of him😂😂
I don't know how it was back then but today the exam is quite difficult and 50-70% Fail it. I've toke it but can't imagine taking it at the age of 16.
@@domenickeller2564 its a joke bruh.
@@junkbot2918 Nah man not really a joke, a lot of stuff are about him on exams which people are failing.
Ol
@sk jahangeer I mean you haven't been on high classes so you won't understand
All those teachers that said "Even Einstein had bad grades guys, you don't have to worry about it!" straight up lied💀
Einstein is proof that you don't need to get all A's in a class to be considered a genius, one failing grade isn't going to kill you.
Unless you're in an Asian household ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
Just Some Guy without a Mustache Don’t know what planet you are living on but when did high school grades ever quantify whether you were a genius? Diligent student, yes, not a genius
Hey it's justin y's counterpart
F ur here too notice me senpai...
Omg you watch everything
Shhh... you maternal authority figure might be gathering your datas without your consent. I advise you to stay cautious when sharing comments on the internet.
yo shout out to my guy Grossman, my man not only was being a true homie to einstein but also was a genius himself who tied for second-highest under einstein. he will go down in history as being a genius himself and being one of the realest bois a boi could ever wish to have
@Corvus Morve aye all imma say is u might be related to the realest boi there was
Marcel Grossmann made a career in education, becoming a university professor, organizing summer schools for high school teachers, and founding the Swiss Mathematical Society.
What an icon
He was a great bro
My ggg
all i've heard: "einstein's grades were bad you know"
his report card: 6/6, 6/6, 6/6, 6/6, 6/6, 5/6, 5/6, 5/6, 5/6, 4/6, 4/6, 4/6, 3/6
ah yes, terrible
(I haven't watched the video yet so I'm sorry if it is in it)
Einstein having bad grades started because a german researcher looked at Einstein's grades in Switzerland and assumed they have the same grading system as germany (where 1 is the best grade and 6 the worst) but in Switzerland 1 is the worst and 6 the best.
I think the guy who spread the rumour was asian
o
Ol
I have the same grades so it must be disgraceful for einstien to have the same grades as me
Fun fact: Albert Einstein didnt though he was smartest man alive since in one interview he was asked how does it fell to be most smartest man alive, he answered: "I don't know, ask Nikola Tesla."
Nikola Tesla is Serbian Worldwide known scientist who without him, we would still have to use DC power becouse he found out about AC the power we use for our computers, fridgerators, light etc. We still use DC in other things btw.
Shoutout to Marcel Grossmann for being such a homie
Einstein gave Grossmann a shoutout in the acknowledgement of his dissertation :)
Roasted XD
Grossmann also guided Einstein for the mathematical background necessary to do General Relativity.
Imagine the things he could have done in this day and age, with the internet and all....he'd be digging out bodies from the dark web
Yeah he’s mad weird💀💀 he’d be that smart emo boy who shows up to class once every two years and he’d probably sit in the back and tell you about how he saw someone get deep fried on the dark web💀💀
@@chimu2387 😐
@@chimu2387 u just described me lmaoooo
@@chimu2387 ;-;
Tbh he sounds like a fraud. He could have easily stole ideas from the patent publication office he worked at, revised them and published it himself. Judging by his character, seems like he snaked his way up. I could be wrong but it would be hilarious if it were true.. the suspicion is there in comedy already.
So for all who dont know in Switzerland all grades below 4 are failing grades, so Einstein actually failed french, something he shares with many other swiss pupils
I found it funny because I also failed French but I'm speaking French everyday so it's something else xD
on this side we fail German lol
I'm in EPFL Switzerland (coming from Canadian Cegep) and never had a grade below 4 at EPFL. Am I smarter than Einstein? I think so yes
Zenchiassassin I failed English, and I’m British 🤷🏼♂️
@@dsgarden /s I hope
Nice video. You manner of speech is very pleasant on the ear. Calm and direct. Much respect for your work. Respectfully a fan from Kentucky in the USA. William Matthew
Me: Mom I got a 6!
Mom: OMG, Good job!
Me: (Never told her the highest grade was 20)
Nice one!
Lol
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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11:54 you gotta have a friend like grossman in life dude is a true g
Yeah seriously, the best kind of supportive friend. I hope Einstein treated him well for everything Grossman did for him.
Bro of the century award goes to that fella
*Grossmann
yes Friendship, now unknown quality in the Western world
seems like a pretty smart dude, this einstein fella
Relatively speaking........
Karan OK Karen
He should try doing physics in the future, he might be relatively good at it.
your mamma He should try doing physics in the relative future
haha ;)
Aargau: "Our school is so good, we have Einstein as an alumnus"
ETH: "Einstein couldn't even pass our entrance exam"
:P
My friends are scared to even apply there and keep telling me that I'm not even Einstein so I shouldn't have such high hopes.
@@mochimmy3724 Meh, do it! Don't hang too much hope on any one thing, but always try your best and reach the highest you can if that's what you want ;)
@@juggling8557 yes, go for it try it
If you want to do it. At least, there won't be any regrets
:b
Juggling He was an alumnus (singular).
Imagine being famous one day and having thousands of people see your report card 👀
@@blank1736 That would require someone to still know who you are 300 years from now. Dude no one even knows who you are TODAY.
Yh that’s why I don’t really care cause I know I’m never getting famous 😅
@@FluffyFluffles well that was a bit rude
@@blank1736 I know you know hehe
@@FluffyFluffles and not even worth knowing, unless he proves it.
Einstein was born on Pie Day.
Tesla was born during a thunderstorm.
So, he likes pies?
Whatisbow 28 the math pie 😂
I think you may be looking for pi day
Weird
Einstein liked Apple pie.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater.
Every teacher of Einstein seems to be a great scientists and inventors themselves.
ETH Zürich checks out
Teachers be like: You know, I'm something of a scientist myself.
@@prateekpanwar646 😭
Moral of the story: Einstein bunked a lot of classes.
Or they just weren't graded.
his not getting a job after getting the best scores is proof education is not just about studying, you have to socialize and interact too. and plan further in the future i guess
@@maimoonakhan7203 Brown nosing your professors is a useful career tactic if you want a future in the university as a professor. If you are too intelligent, they begin to fear their future access to grants with you as their competition.
Grossmann : Here you go, the latest notes
Einstein : Great, now I can top the class
Grossman : WTF
Einstein: I know your notes better than you my friend
Believe me or not, I did the same thing! I was soo poor at taking notes back in school days because It did not interest me and I found that It was wasting my time out of the main core purpose of education because I prefer practical knowledge than notes, and book readings! So what I used to do is simply take photo copy of over 300-400 pages of classmate’s notes. And I studied from them! I did this entire high school and college. Lucky me I always got a friend with good notes. Overall I ended up with like 8.5/10 hah! When I watch this, It’s soo relatable 100%
@@TheMastertbc no he understood it even better than the teachers themselves
@Raihan A Gross is German for tall/huge btw. Back then ppl were already tall with 1,85m - nowadays this is almost the average height for Germans
Tbf, irl, he probably didn't mind. Best homie genius if you ask me. Without him Einstein might've been set back for a couple of years. Or maybe never have found a job.
What amazes me is not that the first biographer assumed the notes being based on the German school system where 1 is the best note and 5 or later 6 the worst. What amazes me is that he didn’t immediately realize his assumption had to be wrong because with so terrible notes Einstein wouldn’t have been able to go to the next class let alone university.
Handwriting on report cards was so good back in those days
It resembles mine yeah I know tq for ur compliment 🤪😂jk have a nice day bruh ,keep smiling ✌️
No computers = hand writing.
I was just watching the handwriting through out the whole video 😍 I wish today's report cards were made this pretty 🤧😭
@@Z3t487 No relation at all. I got my reports in the end of the 90s (in French school). Teachers did not use computers, but their handwriting and they did not write in such a way. They were instead writing very fast. America and Anglo saxon world with their capitalism had already spilled its venom in Europe with their motto ""time is money""
My high school reports from the 1990s have also excellent handwriting. Maybe it is because our class teacher taught drawing and painting.
why is this in my recommended when im failing all my classes
Styfling 息苦しい Mr. Einstien wants u to study better
@@schlondpoofa529 Mr.Einstien just want to crush ur dream after flex on you
Because, your youtube recommendations want to tell you that grades don’t determine your intelligence but that doesn’t mean that you are not supposed to study.
It could be telling you something... you never know
y did zero two die
I'm over here pressed that I have 7 classes, this man has like 14😭 .
we here in Germany have like 15 subjects depends on your grade
German
English
Math‘s
France/IT/Special economics ( I don’t quite know how tho call this subject in English)
are main Subjects we have to take 4 big exams in a year in those (+tests, oral grade etc.)
Then there are the other subjects
Biologie, Chemistry,Physics,History,Art, Music,Geographie,Economics again, politic‘s and sports
In those we have to take two big exams in a year.
So yeah German school systems are pretty rough
7 wtf how you have so few classes.
Chair // CHair 6-7 classes would be normal for the US state I grew up in.
Core requirements:
4 years English
3-4 years Mathematics (depending on what level you start with)
2-3 years Foreign Language (generally Spanish, again years required depend on your starting level)
1 year Biology
1 year Chemistry
3 years History
1 year Art
And then your remaining classes are filled out with electives according to your interests. I think it ends up being not so different. Just with certain subjects concentrated over a year instead of spread out over all of secondary school. My electives, if I remember correctly, gave me two additional foreign languages, 2 years of physics, and an additional year each of chemistry and biology. Ultimately for me pretty comparable to a German secondary education (from what I understand), although with less economics (some was covered in history/math) and no computer science.
Must be from US.
MigthyDoom Yes i’m from US😭
I felt the same way when I was in school. Luckily, I could sit in lectures and absorb enough to get passing grades with little other effort. Instead, I applied myself to outside interests, mostly electronics (ham radio and digital logic), and then computer programming.
Einstein: get 100%
Tibees: "Fairly high grades"
A thing to mention considering his grades, especially in french at the end of Highschool is that he switched schools from his former Highschool in münchen to the Alte Kantonschule Aarau ( the old Kantonsschool in Aarau, a city in the Kanton of Aargau). The other students had already had 7 years of french when he joined for the last year of highschool. The fact that he accomplished to even get a 3 in french im that year shows how good a student he really was. I know all of this because im actually in the last year of the Highschool he graduated at in Aarau.
regts dich ned uf, dass sie AKSA "Aargau School" nennt?
@@parcourmillner5191 was will mer mache, sind halt amis. Bin au ned begeisteret aber läse isch ebe schwierig
Thank you for additional information about his bio!
@@spongus3026 die ist keine Amerikanerin, das hörst du doch an ihrem australischen/neuseeländischen Akzent
I'm reading his biography atm (how did youtube know?!), and supposedly he really liked that school
I want Grossman’s notes.
In German?
Turn on means hit
@@Luca-ed8dz i would learn German just to be able to read them
Eww
@@Luca-ed8dz Why not
Thanks for sharing.I am Swiss and know these places well,glad I could see his original results and his struggles in higher school.
The smartest man of all time was actually smart? Who would have thought ?
He wasn't the smartest man, not of his time nor all time. Einstein set the mark for genius at around 160 IQ. Others have set the mark for hyper intelligence at around 200 IQ.
No one tell Neon the truth
@@NeonGen2000 You have to take into account all of what he achieved. Nobody is comparable to Einstein in this regard. If we ever get another Einstein then the entire world will be transformed again beyond recognition. Without Einstein computing for example would still be in its infancy in 2020. His work led to massive technological developments in so many fields.
Isaac Newton had a theory but his friends couldnt understand it so Isaac invented calculus then taught his mates so they could understand his theory.
@@MICKEYISLOWD "Without Einstein computing for example would still be in its infancy in 2020"
There is no way for you to back this up. Einstein filled a gap. There is no telling someone else wouldn't have filled it in that time.
I guess we should define our terms. How do you define "smart"? I based it purely on general intelligence.
As a student living inSwitzerland, I know how hard it is to get good grades. Especially in ETH, which is probably in the top 10 hardest school to get in & graduate from, in the world. Even having a 4 in ETH is considered to be a 6 in other universities.
What country are you from?
Einstein worked in Switzerland
looks at the grades and sees 5 and 6 as the highest grades he got.
Me: He is similar to me 🧠🤓
Her: 6 is the highest grade
Me: (0_0)
Was it out of 10 or 9 or what ?
@@juno1765 it was out of 6
@@nigelyanga197 oh ok
in germany the number 6 is the worse grade you can gett.he was lazy and didnt study this is just a false post.
and it is still to this day the worst grade u can get.
the grade system in germanyi s the other way around 1;2;3 is excellent 4 is middle and 5;6 is faliure
yeah and ppl think its the opposite. im german but 1 and 2 is perfect, 3 and 4 is okay, and 5 and 6 is not enough.
@@BokkBEn And the today's german grade level was the same during Einstein's education?
Tibees report card: Content 6, Presentation 6, Commentary 6, Name Pronunciation 1
:')
weeber savage!
'Pronounciation' btw.
@@kartikmessner2868 no, it's "pronunciation'
Name pronunciation : 5 (Me: german)
I can still recall from high school science, "He was not so excellent at languages and biology, but excellent in maths and physics."
So am his exact opposite
@@Encephalon-2035 same bro 😂
@@Encephalon-2035 opposite poles attract so you might become Einstein one day
5:34 omg einstein wasnt always an old man? thats weird. i always imagined him w wrinkles n gray hair no matter what age lmao
Loool 😂
lmao
he was the guy getting all the girls..problem was there were not many girls as smart to go to school back then, even less on university ^^
@@IOIO6 well duh because they didn't receive the same education
@@IOIO6 It's not that they weren't as smart, just that they weren't as well educated.
His genius strength was not in doing calculations so it isn’t surprising his test scores weren’t perfect. His intuition was what was beyond everyone else, but that doesn’t help with calculation errors or just plain forgetting things because you didn’t study. The only scores that were actually low were due to spending much more time studying things that interested him at the expense of things he didn’t care for and didn’t even bother showing up for.
I wish I did my physics degree before Einstein, Dirac, Heisenberg was in the syllabus.
Why tho...
@@parvuandi4759 because it would be easier and nothing major to study
lol
@@atharvakapade They did a ton of statmech, electromagnetics, classic field theory back then. Not to mention all the extra math which is considered not useful for Physicists today.
I really wouldn't wanna be a physicist back then rather than now.
@@JoshuaNorton oh that might be true then it must be difficult
It's interesting to see that he was good but not perfect. That's encouraging
maybe the teacher just didn't understand his answers. in any way, he was probably just interested in the field and naturally got those grades, you can already tell by him not attending to the practical lecture how much he cared about grades/the school. he just wanted to learn and pick up what's useful to him.
he was pretty good in physics, so he became a physician. Pretty normal.
Konrad von Schnitzeldorf a physician is a doctor
@@konradvonschnitzeldorf6506 physicist*
@@SD0Dragon i was struggling with that one lol
This probably gets lost in the comments but im from switzerland and i feel like those grades need some further context. It is true that 6 is the best and 1 the worst, however 4 means barely passed. Everything below 4 is failed so a 3 in french on his first report sheet means he failes french, 4, 4 1/2 and 5es makes him an extremly average student. Not saying he was, just saying how to read those grades.
I see like training martial arts. You can be very talented but lack of effort will bring the same result as someone with no talent who tried so hard. For example a top 10% and bottom 10% and 80% range where hard work can bring incredible results
Well, I'm from Switzerland too and I only partly agree with your opinion.
In my opinion you can't evaluate an average of e. g 4.5 as an average student. It's relative to where you passed your exams. For example if you pass your secondary school with an average of 5.5 it's considered very good and a 4.5 would only be fairly good. While at ETH the scale becomes very different because of the difficulty of the subjects themselves and the difficulty and hardships that ETH brings with it. In the case of ETH an average of 4.5 in your semester notes might be very good.
Why do you guys need four grades to convey that someone didn't pass tough?
did you not see the comparison to other students in his class? he was the best
@@barboracelkova1740 u have that in other systems too. A B C D E F, usually D E F is fail, and ABC is pass. Very rarely is D a pass and that would be very weird since getting D usually means u didnt learn much.
In Romania acording to 1(worst)-(to)10 (best), 6 would be barely passing the class and 5 minimum to pass
I found that my university lecturers were so bad that my chances of passing a course were inversely proportional to the amount of time spent in lectures. I had to teach myself to get through university.
My mom also skipped a lot of lectures back in the day and had to study by herself, sometimes it's better to skip a lecture if the professor doesn't know how to teach and learn by ourselves
Next video: Tibees’ grades
Wow, I never expected to be able to talk to you
What about your grades , Euler!
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Information Paradox You better ask Gauss ;)
Probably all A's with her lowest grade being an 89 or an A- lol
Just to make things clearer: 6 means very good (best grade possible), 5 means good, 4 means good enough for passing, everything under 4 is failing the class. To score an average grade of 5.7 is incredible, considering the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich is the toughest university in Switzerland.
This demonastrates that being good at school doesn't alsways mean being intelligent. One of the problems with the educational system in my country is that it mainly concentrates on memory (except from math and physics of course). I would really like to see a reform of the educational system where logic processes are implemented and creativity gets more space.
it keeps the focus on memory to keep the working class stagnated with working factory lvl jobs, which memory is vital for following instructions for such jobs.