Richard Branson: Well at an early age, I didn’t know I was dyslexic at the time, but I am dyslexic. And therefore, when I went off to school, I found conventional school work hopeless. IQ tests, I would turn them upside down. And whichever way I turned them I couldn’t make sense of them.
I decided at a very young age that I needed to get out of this environment and carve my own way in life. And fortunately, I felt that I was strongly anti-Vietnam War that was taking place at the time.
I was very keen on the idea of students being able to have a voice, students to be able to try and change the, what I thought, archaic way that we were taught to do things. So I left school at 15 to start a magazine to try to change the world and put the world right.
Recorded on: July 5, 2007.
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Cindy Preville on January 19, 2008, 11:58 AM
Dyslexis=Genius!
Check out http://www.dyslexia.com/qafame.htm
Richard, are in good company. My son is the same.
Education needs to recognize the gift of dyslexics. We don't have "less" equipment, we have more and it is this additional ability that trips us up in the 2D world.
Cindy Preville on January 19, 2008, 4:58 PM
Dyslexis=Genius!
Check out http://www.dyslexia.com/qafame.htm
Richard, are in good company. My son is the same.
Education needs to recognize the gift of dyslexics. We don’t have “less” equipment, we have more and it is this additional ability that trips us up in the 2D world.
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