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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, the Wright brothers were country bumpkins who couldn't cut it at a university so they turned to inventing motorized airplanes as an alternative. Such low achievers!

"Wind, sand, and a dream of flight brought Wilbur and Orville Wright to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina where, after four years of scientific experimentation, they achieved the first successful airplane flights on December 17, 1903.

With courage and perseverance, these self-taught engineers relied on teamwork and application of the scientific process. What they achieved changed our world forever." https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/index.htm

Both of their parents (yes, even their mom) had college degrees. "The Wright children were educated in public schools and grew up, as Orville later explained, in a home where “there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity.” In a less-nourishing environment, Orville believed, “our curiosity might have been nipped long before it could have borne fruit.”

And Wilbur had intended to attend college until circumstances made that a challenge. -- "Wilbur and Orville were the only members of the Wright family who did not attend college or marry. Wilbur’s plans to enter college came to an end when he was injured in a hockey accident in the winter of 1885–86. He spent the following three years recovering his health, reading extensively in his father’s library, assisting the bishop with his legal and church problems, and caring for his invalid mother, who died of tuberculosis in 1889." Sounds like the sort of thing that kids who don't want to attend college and waste their time with research and the written word might do, right? Wrong! He later joined Orville in the anti-intellectual world of editing and publishing. SMH. These two men were for all intents and purposes the intellectual equals to anybody who attended college in their day. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wright-brothers

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