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How did Albert leave his school where he had spent five years?


Albert left his school without any regrets. He, in fact, left it arrogantly. He had no soft feelings for it or for its teachers. He was completely disillusioned because of the ill treatment meted out to him by the head teacher. He didn’t turn his head to have even a last look at his school.

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What did Albert plan to do after hearing the head teacher?

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How did Albert react to the head teacher?


For a moment Albert felt incited to tell the head teacher what he thought of him and his school. Then he checked himself. He didn’t say even a single word. Holding his head high, he went out with a sense of pride. His silence showed his resentment and dislike for the school and the teachers.

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Write in your own words the dialogue between the History teach Albert.


The class was on. The History teacher asked Albert in what year had defeated the French at Waterloo. Albert said that he didn’t know the answer. The History teacher Mr. Braun asked why. Albert told that he might have forgotten. He asked Albert why he didn’t try to learn the dates. Albert told him that he didn’t see any point in earning dates. One could look up the dates in books. This irritated Mr. Braun. He attributed to Albert that he didn’t believe in education at all. He asked sarcastically what he meant by the Einstein theory of education. Albert told him that for him what mattered in education was ideas, an not acts. He was interested in learning why soldiers tried to kill others in war. He was not intereste in knowing how many of them were killed.

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Why did Albert feel the medical certificate ‘almost burning a hole in his pocket’?


Albert Einstein needed a medical certificate from a doctor. If the doctor could certify that he suffered from a nervous breakdown, he could stay away from the school. Albert had really worked hard to get that certificate from Dr. Ernest Weil. But now the certificate was of no use to him. It was almost ‘burning a hole in his pocket’. He was being expelled from the school even before he could produce it to the head teacher.

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Who was Elsa? What did she think of Albert? How could one pass the examination, according to her?

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Who was Elsa? Write in your own words the dialogue Elsa had with Albert.


Elsa was Albert’s cousin. She lived in Berlin. Her father was a businessman. He had his business in Berlin. Albert met Elsa when she came to Munich. She told him that if he tried, he could learn enough to pass the examinations. Passing them was not difficult. She also told him that she knew lots of boys who were much more stupid than Albert. They had passed easily. They told her that one didn’t have to know anything at all. A student didn’t have to understand what he was taught. He was required just to be able to repeat what he was taught. Elsa then told Albert that he didn’t need to be good at learning things. Anyone could learn like a parrot. Albert could do it easily. He would find no difficulty in passing the examination.

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