A Truth of Paradigm

Ever since in our elementary school, we have been tought that we should learn something from those giant people who had already achieved great honors.

The world, however, is a little ridiculous.

When we are somewhat thickheaded in our teachers' eyes, in order to encourage us to build our self-confidence, our teachers often cite the example of Albert Einstein.

They often said "aha, you can see that, even our most greatest seientist in the 20th century seems not so smart as you in his early days."

Then an opposite fact is that: How about a student who is some what more clever than most of his/her classmates?

Actually, James Clerk Maxwell, a scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist, appears from our teachers to such kind of smart students. He is a quite smart boy even since his little boy, and he finaly, also, becomes one of the most great scientists in the world.

So, what is the really significance of such paradigms in our life???