“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

In 30 years you'll most definitely forget what you were taught in school. You'll remember only what you learned yourself.

Tatiana, as a rule, I don’t look at your translations until I’ve done my own so that I’m not influenced. Yours is excellent - just a few comments: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one LEARNED in school. In 30 years you’ll most definitely forget what you were taught in school. You’ll remember only what you learned ON YOUR OWN/TAUGHT YOURSELF.

However, you have WHAT YOU WERE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL, whereas the Russian looks to me more like the things you were forced to study, no?

Uly, thank you.)) 🙏 I actually copied the first part of it from the internet. "On your own" was my initial guess.

That makes sense because Einstein’s first language was German, and in German the perfect is used instead of the plain past.

"However, you have WHAT YOU WERE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL, whereas the Russian looks to me more like the things you were forced to study, no?"
Absolutely. I changed that to have kind of contradiction "were taught - learned on your own", overlooking the given "пришлось учить - выучил сам" contradiction.

Ah, ok. The problem is that WERE TAUGHT can sound resultative (you were SUCCESSFULLY taught something - you learned it).

"... Einstein’s first language was German, and in German the perfect is used instead of the plain past.
Yes, that looks like a literal translation from German, although it wasn't spoken language Das Perfekt wird insbesondere in der gesprochenen Sprache verwendet.

Na eben, und ich glaube er hat das tatsächlich gesagt, oder, mindestens, geschrieben, als wenn er es gesagt hätte)))

Das stimmt! 👍