Dr. Donald Hebb - Early Academics

Donald's attitude towards authority and policy was perhaps influenced by his home schooling experience. He "automatically resisted all adult pressure and held a low estimate of the value of scholastic achievement" and thus failed grade 11. He did manage to graduate, however, and enrolled at Dalhousie University, where he received his B.A. in 1925.

Donald's distain for structured schooling caused him to have a "worse than mediocre" record at Dalhousie, and a skeptical attitude. He began his career as a teacher shortly afterwards.