'I was quite a maverick kid' : NPR | NYGazet

The legendary actor died Tuesday at 89. "I wasn't learning the way I was supposed to learn ..." he explained in 2013. "I realized that my education was going to happen when I got out in the world."

As a kid in Los Angeles, Academy Award-winning actor Robert Redford wasn't a good student. During class, he remembers gazing out the window and drawing pictures under the desk. "I wasn't learning the way I was supposed to learn," he told Fresh Air in... [6840 chars]