A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: The Newspaper Boy Who Reached for the Stars
He caught newspapers thrown from a moving train, and told a teacher he did not understand. That honesty carried him all the way to the stars.
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Michael Faraday: The Bookbinder’s Apprentice Who Read Everything He Bound
A blacksmith’s son with almost no schooling was sent, at fourteen, to bind books for a living. Nobody taught him science. He read his way to it — one volume at a time, off the very shelf he was meant to be stitching — and became the man whose discoveries make it possible to switch on a light.
