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Legend has it that in the 4th century BC, a young man from a small town in northern Greece

heard rumors of the great Plato and Plato's Academy, the man whose ideas were changing the world

in the academy that was the epicenter of education, all for a one-way ticket via camelback to Athens, Greece. So at just 17, the young man

packed his bags and made the pilgrimage hundreds of miles to learn from the great Plato.

He would stay 20 years. His name was Aristotle. And his pilgrimage would prove to be one of the

most influential in human history.

In the 1930s, a certain physicist accepted a role in Princeton, New Jersey.

All sorts of people from students to scientists, poets to politicians,

would make the pilgrimage to meet the modest man with a brilliant brain and wiry white hair.

Albert Einstein. His reputation had rippled all the way to America. To meet the modest man with a brilliant brain and wiry white hair,

Albert Einstein, his reputation had rippled all the way to America,

and before he knew it, nobodies were knocking at his door,

and large crowds were filling lecture halls just to get into the same room.

Is the genius the real deal?

The genius had arrived, and everyone wanted to know for themselves. Is he true?

Is he as smart as they say he is? In the 1980s, my dad recalls studying at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. During his time, many students began flocking to the university, making the

pilgrimage there to learn under a new

popular professor who had just been hired. Maya Angelou, the famed poet, author, activist,

students, including my dad, would wait on a long wait list just to be in the same classroom as her,

just to hear the way poetry seamlessly slipped off of her lips.

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