Geniuses are not qualified

They are prominent scientists, writers, and politicians in human history. Although there are no conditions to follow any formal training program, but with their passion, their desire to learn, and their will and effort, they rise and shine like those stars in the history of the sky .

Legend of 'genius without qualifications'

1. Frederick Douglass

One of the famous self-taught examples in history is Frederick Douglass . He was born in 1818 in a slave family in Maryland. When he was a child he learned the words himself when his family lived in Baltimore, and since then he has always found the opportunity to cultivate more knowledge by reading a lot.

At the age of 20, he escaped slavery and settled in Massachusetts. Here he continued the path of self-study and self-training and then he became one of the most important writers and abolitionists in American history.

2. Ando Tada

Ando Tada is a famous Japanese architect even though he never went to any architectural training school. He used to earn a living as a driver, a boxer, and a carpenter before learning to become an architect himself. He used to make a trip from East to West to observe and learn about the art of architecture by visiting outstanding works in the world. In 1969, he founded architecture firm Ando Tadao .

Sumiyoshi Blockhouse (Azuma House), completed in 1972 is the first project to reveal his architectural features. In 1995, Ando received the Pritzker Prize and $ 100,000. He donated that money to orphaned children in the Hanshin earthquake.

3. Janes Goodall

Dr. Janes Goodall, one of the world famous environmental activists and a United Nations peace messenger , is a famous British researcher in the field of wildlife protection. . In 1960, when she was 20 years old, she went to Kenya, Africa to study the behavior and life of chimpanzees. She has 40 years of living and working in Africa and her research is widely regarded as "affecting the whole world in general and the animal world in particular". What is interesting about her is that most of her important scientific research is done when she has not yet gone to any training school.

Dr. Janes Goodall has been awarded many noble titles and awards for wildlife conservation; United Nations Peace Ambassador in 2002; Medal of Benjamin Franklin for scientific cause in 2003. She is also known as the "woman of chimpanzees".

4. Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday is a British chemist and physicist who has contributed to the field of Electromagnetism and Electrochemical. The third child in a poor family with four children, Faraday had only the most basic knowledge from the school, but in return he was an avid child and tried to study tirelessly.

At the age of 14, Faraday was apprenticed at a bookstore, and during his 7 years of apprenticeship, he read many books, including Isaac Watts's book, an intellectual expansion book, he was passionate about conducting principles. and perspective in the book. Since then he has shown a passion for science, especially in the field of electricity .

Although Faraday received very little school training and had little knowledge of advanced mathematics, he was one of the most prestigious scientists in the history of science. He was the first and most eminent chemistry professor of the Royal Institution of the United Kingdom, and held this position throughout his life.

5. The Wright brothers

The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright , were the first to successfully test the flight. The first flight in human history was made on December 17, 1903 at the Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina State, USA. Each brother made two flights that day. The first flight, performed by Orville, lasted 12 seconds and flew about 36.5 meters (120 ft).

The last flight, done by Wilbur, lasts 59 seconds and goes 296 meters. The plane was then called Flyer I. It had a wingspan of about 12 meters and weighed over 300kg, with a 12-horsepower petrol engine. It is currently located at the US National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

What is special is that both of them have never attended an engineering school or received any professional qualifications. Their success comes from their passion for science and technology plus efforts to explore and continue to learn. The genius of the Wright brothers turned the ancient dream of mankind into reality.

6. Srinivasa Ramanujan

Srinivasa Ramanujan is a legendary Indian mathematician, known for his outstanding academic background in mathematical mathematics, but has made important contributions to many mathematical disciplines such as calculus, number theory, and sequence. infinite . He was born and raised in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, India and became acquainted with mathematics from the age of 10.

He showed a special talent for mathematics when he was given a high-grade trigonometric book by SL Loney. At the age of 13 he mastered this book and began to find ways to invent mathematical theorems. At the age of 17, he studied the Bernoulli number and Euler-Mascheroni constant.

During his short life (1887-1920), Ramanujan independently published nearly 3,900 research results largely in the field of equations and final identities, which today are mostly recognized as accurate. Ramanujan magazine was born to publish influential mathematical studies from his works.

7. Mark Twain

Mark Twain , a big name in American literature, his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens . His family is quite struggling and in need; At the age of 12, after his father died of pneumonia, Mark Twain had to earn a living by typesetting. There was a time when he had to drop out of school, follow a train driver's job to make a living.

Later, he continued to study by himself at the public libraries in the cities where he lived and began to embark on the work of a journalist. The journey on the river before has become an inspiring inspiration to write masterpieces such as Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi .

8. Steven Paul Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs is a billionaire, American business and patent tycoon. He is the co-founder, president, and former chief executive of Apple computer firms; He was also the CEO of Pixar Animation Studio (which owns many Oscars for best animation like Finding Nemo, Superman Family, Chef Mouse , WALL-E, Up and Sentence. 3 after that, he became a member of Walt Disney's board of directors after Disney acquired Pixar.

Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He attended Cupertino and Homestead high schools in Cupertino, California. In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but was fired after only one semester.

Even so he continued to attend classes at Reed, including a beautiful writing class. During that 'study' , he had to sleep under the floor of his friends, exchange cans of fresh water to get his meals and receive free meals every week at Hare Krishna Temple. Later Jobs expressed: "If I have never attended those odd courses at school, the Mac will never have so many typefaces or fonts proportionally proportional."

9. Lincoln Lincoln

Be the 16th President in US history . He was born into a poor family, his parents were illiterate farmers. He has no conditions for formal schooling. His actual study period probably only lasted 18 months by non-professional teachers. His knowledge comes mainly from self-study through reading every book that can be borrowed, from the Bible, to books of history, and literary books.

He was fluent in the Bible, the works of William Shakespeare, British history and American history, and he learned a simple presentation style before the audience. He spends so much time reading books that his neighbors think he deliberately does so in order not to do manual labor.

Lincoln is best known for his role in preserving the United States and ending slavery in the United States with the thirteenth Liberation and Amendment Declaration of the US Constitution on the rejection of slavery.

10. Henry Ford

If your child is always looking for ways to deal with learning, instead of sitting around cleaning his motorcycle, don't be sad. Maybe she will be able to become Henry Ford of Vietnam.

Henry Ford was also lazy at school and loved repairing old and broken things. The machine had a strange charm to him. At the age of twelve, he imitated a small steam-powered machine. When he was twenty-eight years old, when he was an electric worker, he was determined to pursue the invention of the German explosive machine.

Success has come with persistent perseverance, 5 years after the world's first car was born. Although it is tall, there is no roof, no win and runs backward, the maximum speed is 30 km / hour.

A few years later he founded the Detroit Car Company and Cadillac Car Company. Although Henrry had no formal education, he had a great leadership. In addition to constantly improving car models to improve the quality and design of consumer needs and tastes, Henrry has a perfect development strategy.

In 1906 he produced 8,400 cars; four years later, that number increased to 34,000; a year later, it increased to 78,000; and by 1927, he could produce 7,000 cars a day, taking out every 7 seconds, a car in his workshop slowly ran out to be sent around the world.

11. Soichiro Honda

In 1980, Soichiro Honda was honored by the prestigious magazine "People" as the "most special person of the year ", and the generation considered him a "legendary Henry Ford of Japan".

From childhood to hardship to the position of President of the powerful Honda Group, the business story, the life story of Soichiro Honda has become the legend of 'genius without qualifications'.

When 2 years old, the boy Soichiro was attracted and liked to tinker with the windmill. A little more, he " built " a bamboo toy plane with 'engine ' made of rubber bands. He had been stuck on his face all day because he was helping his father in the workshop so much that his friends gave him the nickname 'the weasel nose'.

'The weasel weasel' is not interested in studying, only interested in his bad engineering and transcripts. At the age of 15, Soichiro Honda dropped out of school to go to Tokyo to learn a job at the workshop of Shokai auto mechanics, lighting up his passion and speed until later.

Four years later, Honda opened its own factory. Only after a short period of time, the 'one-member enterprise' factory produced a motor bike . Immediately, the product crept across every corner of Japan.

From here, his Honda Technical Research Institute has been successful and constantly evolving. By 1948, Honda Motor Co. Ltd was established and became a world No. 1 corporation in manufacturing motorcycles, top 10 automobile production.

12. Bill Gates

At the Harvard campus called " Harvard Crimson " there is a sign that says "Bill Gates is Harvard's most successful dropout" , while the rest of the world still calls him "the richest man in the world." "For more than a decade, now, despite not taking the lead, he is still on the list of the rich of the world.

Gates enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 1973. Two years later, he dropped out of school to start a Microsoft company with his friend Paul Allen. After being named, Bill Gate returned to school to continue his studies. And in 2007, he finally received an honorary Doctorate from his alma mater.

When invited to speak at the graduation ceremony for Harvard graduate students, Bill Gates said: "I am a bad example. That's why I was invited here to talk about your graduation. see me before enrolling, maybe the number of students preparing to graduate here is much less. '

13. Frank Lloyd Wright

According to America's most famous architect , Wright has spent more time designing colleges and universities than attending classes in it. After spending a year studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he dropped out of school to go to Chicago and become an apprentice of Louis Sullivan, the "father of modernism".

In his non-stop creative and design career, Wright created more than 500 magnificent, most famous buildings, Fallingwater and New York City of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

14. Buckminster Fuller

Having been expelled from Harvard twice, the architect and great inventor Buckminster Fuller had to go through many ups and downs. Some initial business ideas failed and experienced the pain of losing their first daughter, he seemed unable to get up.

However, at the age of 32, Fuller's life began to change. His creative ideas such as dynamic coupling devices applied to houses and cars received enthusiastic response from the public. In particular, the structure of his image arches has brought his name to new heights and internationally recognized.

15. Mark Zuckerberg

Leaving school at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg developed Facebook in his school dormitory. Now Facebook has become one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. According to Facebook's outbreak, Zuckerberg dropped out of school to move his company location to California.

Mark Zuckerberg proved that his decision was wise. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world, with a net worth of $ 4 billion in 2010. However, recently, Facebook Owner received a Harvard diploma after 12 years of dropping out.