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John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize is Medicine for his work on stem cells.

 

His Biology teacher did not think he showed much promise.

 

"... several times he has been in trouble , because he will not listen but will insist on doing his work in his own way. I believe he has ideas of becoming a Scientist; on his present showing this is quite ridiculous, if he can't learn simple Biological facts he would have no chance of doing the work of a Specialist, and it would be a sheer waste of time, both on his part, and those who have to teach him."

 

He ranked last in biology out of 250 boys in his class.

 

Here's the link to the news report.

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John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize is Medicine for his work on stem cells.

 

His Biology teacher did not think he showed much promise.

 

"... several times he has been in trouble , because he will not listen but will insist on doing his work in his own way. I believe he has ideas of becoming a Scientist; on his present showing this is quite ridiculous, if he can't learn simple Biological facts he would have no chance of doing the work of a Specialist, and it would be a sheer waste of time, both on his part, and those who have to teach him."

 

He ranked last in biology out of 250 boys in his class.

 

Here's the link to the news report.

:001_wub: Fabulous! Thanks for sharing.

 

As the mom of a boy who insists on doing things his own way, these kinds of things give me hope.

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I remember getting a bad grade in about 4th or 5th grade science on what was essentially a trivia test (I'd skimped on reading the book) and bringing it home to be signed-only to have my mother go into a rampage on how this ISN'T science and how inaccurate the questions and answer choices were. (I had not one, but two parents with science degrees-between the two of them, they hit biology, chemistry, and physics), and how this wasn't how you trained scientists!

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