ReinyDays
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Maybe- since he's dead we'll never know for sure- what we do know is; one size does not fit all and Einsteins "success" illustrates it. The author also raises the question of just what success is as have I many times- the one size fits all in our system of education from kindergarten though college pushes hard a soft tyranny of obedience and compliance, which stifles creativity which helps the Individual see beyond the societal definition of success = in many's eyes a black sheep of the family who truly goes after what he wants vs what society says he should have to be happy. That to many is unacceptable.
If I may ...
Michael Faraday may be a better example of the point you seem to being trying to get across ... he was apprenticed to a bookbinder when he was 14-years-old and taught himself how to read ... and read the material he was helping to bind ... this was at the very beginning of our exploration of current electricity and the material fascinated young Michael ... and he built and played with the equipment and experiments he was reading about as a simple bookbinder's apprentice ... long story short ... Michael Faraday was eventually brought in as a fellow in the Royal Society not for his scientific academia, he receive no formal education ... but rather as the foremost experimenter of his day ...
Without this indoctrination into Newtonian physics ... he was completely free to allow the results of one experiment dictate the procedures for his next experiment ... and frequently outside what would have been considered "main stream" science ... specifically applying the quality of "force" in strange and unusual ways, and it is Faraday who coined the term "field of force" ...
Unfortunately, Michael Faraday did not have the formal training to be able to describe his "new" physics ... thus it was left to James Maxwell, and his comprehensive education at Edinburgh, to publish the formal paper that today we know as Field Theory and it's application to electromagnetism ... and we generally credit Maxwell for this discovery, although Maxwell himself gave all credit to Michael Faraday ...
Some should be free to be creative ... and others should be disciplined and rigid ... both can work together for a better result ...