Einstein's
Early
Education
Albert
Einstein
was
born
in
Ulm
,
Germany
,
in
1879
.
Because
he
learned
to
____________________
at
a
late
age
,
his
parents
feared
that
he
was
retarded
.
Modern
observers
prefer
____________________
that
he
was
a
daydreamer
.
When
he
was
5
years
old
,
Einstein
began
to
____________________
a
Catholic
school
.
One
instructor
was
especially
critical
of
his
abilities
and
____________________
his
parents
that
it
did
not
matter
what
field
young
Albert
____________________
because
he
would
not
____________________
in
it
.
In
1889
,
Einstein
____________________
to
a
very
strict
German
school
called
the
Luitpold
Gymnasium
.
The
rigid
structure
forced
Einstein
to
distrust
authority
and
become
skeptical
.
At
age
12
,
Einstein
picked
up
a
mathematics
textbook
and
began
____________________
himself
geometry
.
By
1894
,
Einstein's
father's
business
had
failed
to
prosper
,
and
the
family
____________________
to
Italy
.
Einstein
,
however
,
remained
behind
and
began
____________________
lonely
and
unhappy
.
Consequently
,
he
____________________
less
attention
to
his
studies
and
was
finally
asked
by
one
of
the
teachers
to
leave
.
He
joined
his
family
in
Italy
but
was
not
able
to
matriculate
at
a
university
because
he
did
not
have
a
diploma
.
When
he
____________________
that
a
diploma
was
not
necessary
to
enter
at
the
Swiss
Polytechnique
Institute
in
Zurich
,
he
decided
____________________
____________________
.
Einstein
traveled
to
Switzerland
but
did
not
pass
the
entrance
examination
.
He
was
not
prepared
well
enough
in
biology
and
languages
,
so
he
enrolled
in
the
Gymnasium
at
Aarau
to
prepare
himself
in
his
weaker
subjects
.
Albert
enjoyed
____________________
in
Aarau
more
than
at
the
Luitpold
Gymnasium
because
the
teachers
wanted
to
____________________
students
how
to
____________________
.
He
took
the
exam
again
and
was
finally
permitted
to
matriculate
into
a
four
-
year
program
.
Einstein
did
not
excel
during
these
years
at
the
Institute
.
In
fact
,
he
rarely
attended
the
lectures
.
He
read
his
books
at
home
and
borrowed
his
classmates'
notes
to
pass
tests
.
When
Einstein
graduated
in
1900
,
he
failed
to
obtain
a
position
at
the
Institute
.
His
professors
did
not
intend
to
reward
Einstein's
lackadaisical
attitude
toward
classes
with
a
position
.
Because
he
did
not
get
an
academic
appointment
,
he
worked
at
the
Swiss
Patent
Office
.
He
____________________
there
for
several
years
until
he
was
offered
an
appointment
as
Associate
Professor
of
Physics
at
the
University
of
Zurich
.
It
was
there
that
Einstein's
revolutionary
theories
of
space
-
time
began
to
take
hold
and
threatened
to
____________________
the
reputations
of
other
colleagues
who
had
built
their
careers
on
Newton's
ideas
of
a
clockwork
universe
.
