direct to your inboxThe teacher who wrote that his pupil "will either go to prison or become a millionaire" probably didn't go on to open an account at the bank he founded!
And how about the "persistent muddler" who couldn't write for toffee back then but who became one of the world's most famous authors?The long-feared school report's success in predicting future glory appears, at best, to be an inexact science.
Unlike, well, actually science!Here we take a peek at some of the comments - good and bad - of those who taught these outstanding talents long before they were famous.But can you work out, from these sometimes scathing reports, who the famous pupil is?Take our quiz and see if you can guess who was top of the class, who could have.
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