Academic achievement has nothing to do with personal worth

I’M afraid William Evers isn’t as well educated as he might think (Irish Examiner letters, August 19). The gall of him to ask “of what use is a person who is illiterate and cannot add or subtract?”

For his information, Thomas Edison was illiterate and Albert Einstein, as a child, had great difficulty solving mathematical problems. More importantly, the real value of a person has nothing to do with his academic achievement. A truly intelligent person is he who understands that he knows very little.

Tom O’Leary