Who says 12 year olds cant do great things? Here are just of few of the many great accomplishments of 12 year olds.


At age 12:

Albert Einstein taught himself Euclidean geometry. He also dedicated himself to solving the riddle of the "huge world."

The filmmaker Fellini ran away to join a traveling circus. His circus career consisted of helping to wash a zebra.

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg got his first movie camera and spent hours writing scripts, drawing storyboards and making movies of subjects such as head-on miniature train crashes and an exploding pressure cooker full of cherries jubilee.

Albert and Allen Hughes ("Menace II Society") began making films at age 12.

Thomas Chatterton fooled the critics by writing the so-called Rowley poems, attributed to medieval writers. Five years later, after failing to gain success, he committed suicide.

By age 12, Ruben Dario was the established poet of Nicaragua.

French composer Georges Bizet ("Carmen") wrote his earliest known compositions.

Actor Gerard Depardieu left home and lived on the streets.

Science fiction author Ray Bradbury started writing a minimum of four hours per day.

Country-rock singer Tanya Tucker recorded "Delta Dawn," her first hit song.

Thomas A. Edison sold newspapers and began performing electrical and mechanical experiments in his spare time.

Carl Jung learned what a neurosis was, after realizing he had been faking the fainting spells that enabled him to avoid returning to school.

Ludwig van Beethoven became an assistant organist.

Writer and general Carl von Clausewitz ("On War") joined the army at age 12.

Mathematician Carl Witte received his Ph.D.

German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz taught himself Latin and Greek in order to read the books in his father's library.

French thinker, scientist and mathematician Blaise Pascal mastered Euclid's Elements by age12.

Isaac Merrit Singer, inventor of the sewing machine, left home to become an itinerant machinist.

Composer George Frideric Handel became an assistant organist.

Arctic explorer Matthew Alexander Henson first went to sea.

Admiral Lord Nelson Horatio entered the Royal Navy.

Norwegian chess player Magnus Carlsen became the world's youngest grand master of chess when he won Dubai Open at the age of 12 years and 7 months.


---When people tell me I can't do anything because I am 12, I say prove it.