Famous People Who Were Slow Starters

Famous People Who Were Slow Starters 

Winston Churchill seemed so dull as a youth that his
father thought he might be incapable of earning a
living in England.

G.K. Chesterson, the English writer, could not read
until he was eight. One of his teachers told him, "If
we could open your head we should not find any brain
but only a lump of white fat."

Thomas Edison's first teacher described him as
"addled," and his father almost convinced him he was a
"dunce."

Albert Einstein's parents feared their child was dull,
and he performed so badly in all high school courses
except mathematics that a teacher asked him to drop
out."

  -- Book of Lists, 1986, Irving Wallace, 
  Wm. Morrow & Co., NY, NY.