Einstein studied in a strict Catholic primary school where the students wore military type uniforms. Einstein was generally bored by the classes. Though he excelled in certain subjects like mathematics and Latin, his performance in other subjects was poor. Einstein’s teachers considered him to be a dreamy, absentminded child.
However, Jakob Einstein, Albert’s uncle discovered the boy’s latent brilliance when Albert was able to give his own mathematical proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. (Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician who lived in the 6th century BC.)
Albert’s parents encouraged him to ask questions and gave him many books to read. Eager to learn more, Albert taught himself advanced maths.
In 1894, Einstein began attending a secondary school at Munich’s Luitpold Gymnasium. The new school turned out to be stricter than his primary school.
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