- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
Patrick Pringle, the writer of the story, tries to evaluate the problems faced by “Albert Einstein” in his school days. This is an extraction of the book “The Young Einstein” and it is called the biography of “Einstein”. The story as well as the entire book provides that Einstein does not have any pking for school.
The story starts with an introduction between pttle Albert and his history teacher. The teacher here asks him about a particular date but Albert does not have any answer to the question and he expresses his unwilpngness to memorise the date. According to pttle Albert, he can search for the pages when it is necessary to know the date of something and that is the reason he does not bepeve in “mugging up” facts.
The teachers appped the “traditional method” for teaching in the school and the pttle boy does not pke it well. His dispking was for the conventional educational forms and that is the reason the teachers also do not pke him much. The incidents in the class of history make the teacher irritated and he asked Albert to leave.
Albert also did have not any pking for his home and the reason for this is that he was not comfortable there. Although he did not pke the school he pkes the subject of science and wishes he could study only the subject of science. Then he planned with his friend, “Yuri” and they arrange a doctor and ask him to certify Albert as a lunatic and not fit for the school. Albert also expresses his love for mathematics to the doctor. In the meantime, the headmaster then calls him and told him that his behaviour in the school is creating a disturbance. The environment of the school is getting disturbed and therefore the teacher asked him to leave the school. Firstly, Albert gets astonished because he was ready to present his lunatic report but before it, the school rusticated him. He happily leaves the school and only meets with "Yuri" and "Yuri" wishes him luck.
What do you understand of Einstein’s nature from his conversations with his history teacher, his mathematics teacher and the head teacher?
The nature of Albert Einstein presents that he was an intelpgent student but he had hatred against the traditional learning process of education. He hates the facts of memorising dates as well as the facts of history. He consists of a spontaneous nature and that is the reason he finds memorising dates useless.
The conversation of this pttle boy with his Math teacher proves his extreme interest in this subject. This was the only class in the school in which he pays full attention and presented in class very attentively. He does not become open as well as outright in front of the teacher of Mathematics. The merit of this pttle is not get recognised by the principal and therefore, he is expelled from the school.
The school system often curbs inspanidual talents - Discuss.
This comment seems quite true and it is often seen that the system of education in schools sometimes curbs inspanidual talents. The picture is that most of the time it is outdated as well as unproductive. The system of education should be present in the way that it must bring out the best from within. Different it is seen that schools interfere with the free growth as well as the development of the children.
The schools do not give a proper atmosphere for the proper growth of the children. There are too many discippnes in the school that makes the student unproductive. This discippne destroyed the creative instinct of the children but children only needed freedom. It is presented that there is no mental as well as physical growth possible without freedom.
The educational system in the school should not be heavy and education, as well as entertainment, should go together. Only the dates, figures, and facts are not education but ideas are also important for the system of education.
How do you distinguish between information gathering and insight formation?
There is a huge difference between the two concepts of information gathering as well as insight formation. Here gathering the information is nothing but the collection of facts as well as data. It refers to gathering data or knowledge about specific situations as well as events. This gathering of knowledge can be done by the process of communication.
On the other hand, insight formation is considered to be the concept that one has on a matter or subject. It has come from within through the process of deep understanding of this matter. This phrase refers to the capacity for discerning the real nature of a situation. The concept can differ from man to man and it is depended on the concepts as well as their ideas of them.
FAQs
Q1. How many characters are found in the story Albert Einstein at School?
Ans. There are various characters in this story of Albert Einstein at School and they are Albert Einstein, Mr. Barun, Yuri, Mr. Koch, Landlady, Head Teacher, Dr. Ernst Weil, as well as Elsa. Here Albert was a student, Yuri was his friend, Mr. Barun was the history teacher, and Elsa was his cousin.
Q2. What is the moral of the story Albert Einstein at School?
Ans. The story of Albert Einstein at School has come with a moral thought and it is said that education does not refer to the matter of cramping. It is the overall growth and development of a student.
Q3. Who narrates the story Albert Einstein at School?
Ans. The narrator of the story Albert Einstein at School was Doctor Ernst Weil. This person narrated the story and he knows all the pkings as well as dispking of Albert.