It was a very different educational reality back then. High school education was not at all common until the 20th century. That means most of Einstein’s conte

It was a very different educational reality back then. High school education was not at all common until the 20th century. That means most of Einstein’s contemporaries, the masses, would have had between a 50-80% chance of a haphazard middle school level education. [0] Contrast this with his peers in the sciences who were extremely well educated and an early generation if not the first generation of globally-connected world-class minds and there is no ambiguity about what he is saying. [0] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED606970.pdf