You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And
not that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that
the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever
heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division,
but never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his
way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like the
man says, It's not what you know...
-- Karl Arbeiter: former teacher of Albert Einstein
