His tendency to rebel against the prescriptive nature of school, where everything was unthinkingly memorised, led to some teachers giving him bad reports. His Munich schoolmaster said “he will never amount to anything”.
Einstein penned what would be seen as his first major paper, "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields.' when he was just a teenager.
After failing the entrance exam for a Zurich technical college, Einstein studied a new syllabus at school, and entered college on his second attempt.
At 17, he renounced his German citizenship in order to avoid military service. For the next four years, Einstein was not the citizen of any country.
An academic career was put on hold after graduating with average marks, and finding his girlfriend and fellow student Mileva Marić had fallen pregnant.
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