Famous People - Facts for Kids

Plato believed that education should start with music and gymnastics to develop both the mind and body.

Albert Einstein’s teachers often got frustrated because he asked too many questions in class.

Coco Chanel’s father was a traveling salesman. After her mother died when she was about 11, he left Coco and her sisters at a convent orphanage and did not come back to raise them.

Albert Einstein played Mozart’s music when stuck on difficult problems, saying it helped him think.

Marie Curie was born as Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland, where she lived in a small apartment with her four siblings and parents.