Who are the gifted? (History lesson)

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This famous person did poorly in grade school but later in life helped develop the laws of motion.

His music teacher once said of him, as a composer, he is hopeless.

This person had been retired from the Navy as unfit for service until he flew over both poles.

___________________ got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employer wouldn't let him wait on customers because he didn't have enough sense.

An editor told this writer that she could never write anything that had popular appeal.

This person was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could write.

This rocket engineer flunked 9th grade algebra.

When this inventor was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.