A proper education is an advantage to any mind, but intelligence doesn’t guarantee a formal education.
Albert Einstein left school at fifteen after his teacher described him as “retarded”.
Thomas Edison dropped out at eight.
Up to 50 percent of North Americans born with a genius IQ never graduate high school.
They can take comfort in these words from Emerson:
“I pay the school master, but it’s the schoolboys who educate my son.”
