Swede lessons in life: Never give up

When Bertil Hult finished his 200-m torch relay run yesterday, to the cheers from thousands of spectators, the 68-year-old Swede added yet another milestone to his impressive list of life achievements.

Born with dyslexia, Hult was regarded as mentally challenged during his early school years and was unable to learn how to read and write. Yet by the mid-1990s, his company, Education First (EF), had transformed the world into a global classroom.

Hult's story is inspiring. Because of his inability to learn in the classroom he was sent to a special school for handicapped children. By the time he was diagnosed with dyslexia and was sent back to a normal school at age of 9, it was already too late for him to catch up with his peers.