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He didn't! :)

Although Faraday received little formal education and knew little of higher mathematics, such as calculus, he was one of the most influential scientists in history.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday

Faraday was a naturalist, meaning scientist in those days. But he taught himself everything. He was a secretary to an aging physicist and professor who had lost most of his sight. So Faraday would transcribe the professor's works. Then he started seeing patterns in the physics and derived physical geometries for electromagnetism from intuition.

Towards the end of his professor's life, he became quite famous for his discovers and used his boss's prestige to catapult him into the right circles, where people would recognize his genious without a degree; this is very difficult of course. But, education is in the mind, not the book.

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