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<\/a><\/p>\nThe centenary of Alan Turing, the maths brainbox and father of computer science, is coming up on June 23.\u00a0 It’s always comforting to find that people we regard as super-clever often had a bumpy start at school. In Alan’s case, he didn’t impress his teachers at Sherborne School\u00a0much.\u00a0 Not because he wasn’t brilliant at maths – he was.\u00a0 But more because, back then, education meant the classics – Greek, Latin, history, art, poetry, languages, philosphy etc.\u00a0 His headmaster wrote in a report\u00a0to his parents: “He must aim at becoming\u00a0educated<\/em>. If he is to be solely a\u00a0scientific specialist, he is wasting his time.”<\/p>\n How things have changed!\u00a0 In our modern world, maths and science are key tools in this computer and internet age.<\/p>\n For parents despairing of their children’s school reports, please remember that Darwin had a dreadful school career, that Van Gogh was miserably unpopular, that Galileo was almost kicked out of university and that Leonardo da Vinci\u00a0didn’t even go to school!\u00a0 He had to teach himself.<\/p>\n Find out all these cheering titbits in NowYouKnowAbout’s short films for anyone aged 6 – 100 who’s interested in famous people who made their mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The centenary of Alan Turing, the maths brainbox and father of computer science, is coming up on June 23.\u00a0 It’s always comforting to find that people we regard as super-clever often had a bumpy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n