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 2013. "I think I realized that my education was going to happen when I got out in the world and engaged with other cultures, other places, other languages, and had the adventure of exploration."

Redford saw college as his ticket out of Los Angeles. "I went to college because it was Colorado, and it was the mountains, and by that time I realized that nature was going to be a huge part of my life," he says.

Redford, who died at his home in Utah on Sept. 16, got his breakout role in the 1969 Western, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I

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