Expert: Steve Nelson - 7/19/2009

Question
Did Albert Einstein graduate from elementary school (or the equivalent)? Did he graduate from high school (or the equivalent)? Did he ever obtain any bona fide college degrees? Thank you for your response. Al Brown

Answer
Yes, he earned all his degrees and his life is accurately chronicled in his wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein  

There's a persistent rumor on the internet that Einstein did badly in math at school, where the truth is that he was an exceptional mathematician in school.  People love to believe that somehow Einstein was an underdog and that anyone who did badly in school could somehow have their name be synonymous with genius.  Einstein really was just a mental giant with an ability to see the world in a way no one else had ever seen it before.