Einstein

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that he rejected to be taught by others. He preferred to teach himself instead. So when he was a teenager he taught himself advanced Mathematics and science. carried on with this pattern of independent study for the rest of his life. His father, although a merchant, possessed an inclination for technical matters and so he managed an electrical business where he invented and sold equipment such as dynamos and electrical lamps. He introduced to the mystery of matter when he gave him a compass at the age of four, which seemed to that it came from another world as it behaved in such a determined way that it didn’t fit to his into the nature of events. He said “this experience made a deep and lasting impression on me” and he was so puzzled that he deduced that “something deeply hidden had to be behind things” (Albert Historical and cultural perspectives). Moreover, his father used to take him at the electromechanical fairs to present his electrical inventions. Perhaps such ...

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