Famous People Who Overcame Dyslexia

Richard Branson

Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School (now Bishopsgate School)[3] until the age of thirteen. He then attended Stowe School until he was fifteen. Branson has dyslexia, resulting in poor academic performance as a student. Dyslexia was not known in the UK at this time so his teachers assumed he was either stupid or lazy.This resulted in him receiving many canings for both these offenses. He was the captain of football, rugby and cricket teams, and by the age of fifteen he had started two ventures that eventually failed: one growing Christmas trees and another raising budgerigars, also known as parakeets.

At sixteen, Branson left school and moved to London, where he began his first successful business, Student magazine. When he was seventeen, he opened his first charity, the "Student Advisory Centre."

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CBBC - Sir Richard Branson: When I was 12...

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