  Childhood and Schooldays: Albert Einstein, and the family members seemed to
have exaggerated the story of Albert who developed slowly, learned to talk
late, and whose parents thought he was abnormal. These and other stories were
adopted by biographers as if they really happened in the form that Albert and
his sister told them. Hence biographers were inspired by them to create a
mythical public image of Albert Einstein. Albert had tendency toward temper
tantrums, the young impudent rebel Einstein had an impulsive and upright
nature. He rebelled against authority and refused to learn by rote. He could
not easily bring himself to study what did not interest him at school,
especially humanistic subjects. And so his sister told the story that his Greek
professor, to whom he once submitted an especially poor paper, went so far in
his anger to declare that nothing would ever become of him. Albert learned
subjects in advance when it came to sciences; and during the vacation of a few
months from school, Albert independently worked his way through the entire
prospective Gymnasium syllabus. He also taught himself natural science,
geometry and philosophy by reading books that he obtained from a poor Jewish
medical student of Polish nationality, Max Talmud, and from his uncle Jacob
Einstein.
