Like Goldsmith and Yeats, Pablo Picasso is specially mentioned as one of those talents who______.
A. failed to heed the lectures for lack of the ability to concentrate for long spells
B. thought of themselves as too excellent, beyond any ordinary teachers who they despised greatly
C. could not get themselves interested in their studies, which failed to provide any challenges to their thinking minds
D. firmly believed in the sheer futility of any course they had taken in school