Famous Losers (10 photos) Bashny.Net

Good grades in school, 5 m from the behavior and are not a guarantee of success. Alas. Life has its own rules. Achieve success not only those who are well studied.
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Winston Churchill

Opens our gallery of classic and case hardened. Varmint Winston, the eldest son of aristocratic parents disliked the process of education from an early age.



In his memoirs, he recalled: "For the first time education appeared to me as a sinister figure of the governess, whose appearance was announced in advance. To this day ought to thoroughly prepare by studying the book "Reading Without Tears" (in my case the name clearly did not work). Every day we are in the throes of my nanny to wade through the book, and I found this process is not only terribly tedious, but absolutely useless. We never got to the end, when the fatal hour had struck, and the governess appeared on the threshold of the nursery. I remember that I did something to me in similar circumstances have done hundreds of oppressed sufferers: gone into hiding. " In the nine years finally caught up with the formation of our hero: he was determined to a private school St. George at Ascot. Here there is a stubborn boy really understood (and not so much mind as other, less noble parts of the body) how much a pound Down and Out in the English education. Losers at Ascot beaten regularly and from the heart, and Winston was stable in the wake of the class. Not that he was hopelessly stupid: teachers regularly found it in some secluded corner with a book for his age. However, to teach lessons to work in the classroom and in general somehow try to Churchill flatly refused. Two years later, with the start of classes, Lord Winston showed almost zero progress on exams, and parents took him home. But not for long. At thirteen sufferer again sent to a private high school Harrow. By this time he had somehow learned to imitate the process of passing the exams, so deuces replaced threes. However, Churchill still considered one of the weakest pupils: it along with the rest of the "dumbass" in the class even removed from the study of Latin and Greek, instead appointing additional classes in their native language. Given that Winston Losers later received Nobel Prize for literature, they seem to have benefited.

Andrei Tarkovsky



Andrew is not too lucky with the school years, he went to the first class of the Moscow school number 554 in 1939. Do not have time to get involved Tarkovsky, as the war began, the evacuation of relatives in the provincial Yurievets, famine, and other horrors. In general, primary school we can safely delete from the biography of Andrew Arsenevicha and start immediately with the difficulties of adolescence. Actually, they were not so much in the future classics of world cinema, as his mother, who raised her son alone (father left when Andrew was five years old), and clearly could not cope on disciplinary unit. In high school, Tarkovsky together with the elite school Losers became stilyaga. With all provisions adventures he took out the fashionable clothes and American music in post-war Moscow. Boring school with kondovoj ideology in every sentence and every action of teachers was seen as a temporary misunderstanding, real life begins outside its walls. "I had an amazing attraction to the street - with all its" corrupting ", in the words of his mother, influence, with all the attendant circumstances - recalled the master. - Street balances me in relation to the refined heritage of the parent culture. " In general, if you look at the hero's passport, "parental culture" was just enough for four of the literature. According to history, as well as most of the exact sciences Andrew pulled the three-spot, and in chemistry and drawing in the document flaunt two. In 1951, the future director solely by inertia entered the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies (probably using a reduced interest in Oriental studies in peer), but a year later gave it a bad job and started enriching life experience, which is always considered a major university.

Vladimir Mayakovsky



Soviet literary criticism, so as not to embarrass the pioneers unreported underachievement Vladimir or write it on the revolutionary fervor fervor ... really was. However, the fact remains the same deuces. However, they did not start immediately. As we know from his autobiography "I myself", the first three classes Volodya spent "all in the top five." He was inquisitive and lively boy, loved by parents and teachers - in general, the reasons for antisocial behavior is absolutely no not. Then came 1905, and the city of Kutaisi, where he studied Mayakovsky was at the epicenter of the revolutionary events. This was especially true local high school students who were eager to break the polls unjust system. Case in general normal for young, seething energy of teenagers who give just a break. Eleven-year Volodya due to its smartness and older sisters got into a revolutionary circle of high school students, and study immediately went to pieces. Gorlopanit at meetings was much more interesting than cramming lessons. Frightened teachers did "the highway" all sorts of favors and even transferred Losers Mayakovsky to the next grade. "He moved to the fourth only because I rasshiblas head with a stone (in Rione fought) - on re-examination regret" - he recalls. In general, the fight with stones sufficiently characterizes the revolutionary activity of the poet. In 1906, the family had fallen Mayakovsky huge mountain from blood poisoning died unexpectedly father. Then followed the move to Moscow, where Vladimir went to the 5th Classical High School (now the School № 91). By and large for Mayakovsky with the move, nothing has changed: the mother rented rooms to students who were then almost all underground work. The lessons were not speech. In the fifth grade Volodya finally gave up all this rigmarole and left school. For life it will retain a genuine contempt for the "treasures of human culture", which, however, gave a kind of teenage categorical and freshness of Russian Futurism.

Honore de Balzac



According to biographers and his own memories of the writer, the main problem in childhood was a little Honore dislike mother. Madame Balzac (young Parisian woman who married a rich old man on the calculation) cheerfully undertook the first child to nurse herself - and he lived for more than a month. So the second, who was named Honore, without talking immediately gave the nurse. Since then, the baby did not actually see the mother, especially after she had two more favorite children belonging, according to rumors, it is not an old man Balzac. The cozy village house nurse boy immediately moved into a boarding college Vendôme, where ran the holy fathers. It was a cross between a prison and a monastery, where pupils do not even taken a vacation that was considered extremely salutary and useful for young people.

Offended by the world-Honoré decided that will not be worse, and plunged into his inner world, completely ignoring external stimuli. On the lessons he absently sat and looked out the window, mumbling something unintelligible, if he was asked. Stimuli, naturally, more and more annoyed and regularly sent "tape and dullard" in the "alcove" is simply - in a cold storage room under the stairs, where the pupils were to serve his sentence. In the cooler small Balzac calmly took out his pocket-book and sat down to read. Soon he even loved the "alcove" for the opportunity to sit in peace and tranquility. Imperceptibly flown seven years, during which Balzac interrupted with twos on three, received threatening letters father and read voraciously in the closet. In the end, prolonged sitting on the cold floor quite seriously undermined the health of the boy, he had lost weight, became very sluggish and one day after a long illness almost "fell into a coma," as written to his parents monks. Balzac had yet to pick up the young heir home. Later, he visited two educational institutions, never standing out much success. At some point my father waved his hand on his son and gave him a self-organize their own destiny, which, as we know, it was a rare visionary step.

Richard Branson



We decided that this list would be incomplete without some financial genius. Multimillionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group Corporation and the private space tourism, as time goes on this part. On the lessons of the future tycoon could not put two words together - mumbling, stuttering and blushing fiercely whenever he was called to the board. Branson subsequently found that childhood dyslexia, that is neurologically caused by failure to recognize written language, which in adulthood overcame. As a child, Richard about such an exotic disease and no one never heard of, so future honorable knight UK simply considered a moron.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky



To really in one fell swoop away with the abuse of physically defective people collect them on the same page.

Let's be honest: the main reason why the father of astronautics was in our mournful list is his deafness - a consequence of scarlet fever, transferred to the age of ten. Boy, is perceived only snatches of conversation teacher, was doomed to chronic underachievement. However, this does not negate the fact that Kostya was not averse to hooliganism is absolutely on par with the rest of the students Vyatka gymnasium, for which even got in the cooler. In the second class of 13-year-old schoolboy was in the second year. The third was expelled for academic failure. He found anywhere else and never learned, but the education system was not able to get rid of Tsiolkovsky so easy: after six years, he successfully passed the exams for the title of master and received an official referral from the Ministry of Education.

Thomas Edison



Tom childhood can be called quite happy: he was the youngest and favorite son of handyman and ex-school teacher who possessed immense professional patience. Therefore, the boy was allowed to stir bumblebee nests and steal birds' eggs for fun until 1854, when he was seven years old and it was decided to give to the school. One morning a boy dressed in a clean suit, taken by the hand and brought them to the institution of a Reverend John. B. Ingle, which means the only school of the city. J. B. Ingle practiced a very simple way of teaching young people: he forced his students to memorize long pieces of text and mercilessly beat them on the fingers of line for errors and just for prevention. Thomas sensed a trick from the very beginning: on the second day he said that he did not like school. Father in response to the suggestion made convincing (the effect of which, however, was somewhat broken hearted mother's intervention), but it did not help. By the end of the first month of Thomas Steel Round Losers. And three months later, just before Christmas, the boy came home from school in tears, "Mr. Ingle called me a moron - he said his mother, - and causes parents to school." Here it is necessary to praise the professional instinct Mrs. Edison, who said nothing to his father, and went to understand itself. Mr. Ingle from the doorway announced that her son was "completely incapable of learning because of mental retardation." "The best thing you can do - is to take him home," - he concluded. Mrs. Edison did so. More of her son never crossed the threshold of educational institutions. All their knowledge founder General Electric got home. Mother taught him to read (but not write - with this Thomas had problems all his life), education and soon went ahead by leaps and bounds. In the end, "moron" became a millionaire and one of the most prolific inventors in American history.

Joseph Brodsky



That's really who was an avid and Losers, we can say the mother is Iosif Aleksandrovich. It supposedly secret protest erupted thousands of accidents Jewish boys, silently korpevshih on solfege. Joseph doctrine in the Soviet school despised. Wherein actively. He was not inhibited dreamer, hiding on the last batch - he was a bully and a bully who refused to respond to the lessons with such a pronounced condescension to the teachers that they could not stand him. "By its very nature - stubborn, persistent, lazy. Rough. Impedes lessons Shalit. Written homework performs very poorly, if at all does not perform. Notebooks has grubby, dirty, with inscriptions and pictures "- wrote the class teacher Joseph when transferring it to the fifth grade. And that was just the beginning. In the sixth grade, Brodsky began just go with the lessons. He wandered through the streets, and "Leningrad facades of houses told the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, more than any textbooks." Scolded his house, especially my father. However, the man who returned from the front, but when his son was eight years old, had him very little influence. During the years of fatherless little Joseph used to be responsible for their actions. In the seventh grade (1954), Joseph received four annual twos - in physics, chemistry, mathematics and English. He remained in the second year, and in November 1955, and dropped out of school altogether. Joseph formally apprenticed miller at the plant "Arsenal". In practice - began a violent, delicious life parasite and anti-Soviet, which made him cynical, cosmopolitan and a great poet. By the way, the Nobel Prize winner for literature.

Anton Chekhov



Yes, intelligence from Russian writers also began, quite frankly, not so hot. There seems to be a father is to blame. Czechs Sr. held in Taganrog small little shops colonial goods, where the shelves were mixed tea, candy, soap, herring, kerosene and even incredible drugs - like a mixture of mercury, nitric acid, oil, strychnine and hard to define waste, called for some reason " Nest "(Chekhov later gave tribute to the fortress Russian stomachs in connection with that same" nest "). Also in the shop flourished tavern. And so much of his childhood Anton had to spend behind the desk in this hell and see that sellers of anything being stolen. The implication was that this time the young schoolboy will do my homework. However, in the bitter cold, from which kocheneli fingers, including herring and obscene jokes about the lessons of his regulars, of course, I think in the last turn. Small Chekhov was just sitting in a dream (shop opened at five) and waited for his father deigns to come back and stop watch sad. Of course, when the child is still released, he fled not to engage in, and swim or sledding - depending on the season. As a result, the school does not shine Anton. He was even allowed to double in the second year, in the third grade because of deuces on geography and arithmetic, and the fifth - because of the Greek language. According to Russian literature, most surprisingly, the future writer, too, never got more than four, but more often in his notebooks adorned indulgent threefold. It was only in high school sufferer lucky father finally went bankrupt and the family moved to Moscow, where Chekhov enrolled in medical school, he began to write stories and downright started a new life.

Leo Tolstoy



Start biographies giant Russian thought it was pretty chaotic. His mother died when he was less than two years, nine years after her father followed. All this time the children roamed the various relatives, who did not dare to offend the unfortunate orphans and lowered them away with more than they should. Education up to 16 years was exclusively a home. Autobiographical "Adolescence" (which, incidentally, has a chapter entitled "Unit") provides a comprehensive picture of the successes of the young Count in this field. He was too proud to accept minded dependents teachers seriously, but because he studied without the slightest effort. In the end, the children moved to another guardian in Kazan, and boys one by one staged in the Imperial University of Kazan. In the case of Leo was noble, but it is a useless endeavor. The new guardian Tolstoy, Countess PI Yushkova woman foolish and stupid, as an educational measure for your teenage nephew did not want to "do better as an aristocratic connection with an adult, a decent woman." Her house was wound cheerful interior, where the young Tolstoy (had he not been so clumsy) had every chance to follow the advice of my aunt. In general, there was no time for studying. In the first year of Leo Tolstoy left in the second year because of poor ratings on Russian history and German.