At the age of five Albert Einstein got private lessons from a tutor. However, this did not last long as Albert had thrown a chair after his tutor because he was in a bad temper. In the same year he also began to learn the violin. From 1885 when he was six years old he attended “Petersschule”, a catholic elementary school in Munich. Due to a report card from school Albert’s mother wrote to her sister: “Yesterday Albert received his grades, he was again number one, and his report card was brilliant.” In October 1888 he changed to Luitpold grammar school. As he was not able to cope with the authoritarian attitude of the school and as time went by had more and more severe problems with some of his teachers he left grammar school ahead of time in December 1894 without a degree. His class teacher had once said to him that “never will he get anywhere”.
(Source: einstein-website.de)
