Thomas Edison and his mother

Thomas Edison and his mother

One day, the young Thomas Edison, the future inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph machine, arrived home from school with a letter addressed to his mother from his teacher. “Here, mother, this is for you, and the teacher told me not to read it, but give it directly to you.” His mother quickly took the letter and started to read it. Thomas waited with curiosity and asked her “What did she write? What’s written in the note?” With tears in her eyes, his mother started to read “Your son is a genius. His place is definitely not in our school. We do not have the resources to teach him properly. We don’t have teachers qualified enough to teach your son. We suggest that you keep him at home, and teach him yourself.” And Thomas’s mother Nancy kept him at home, and even though she had 6 other children, all of them older than Thomas, she taught him at home, until she got sick and died. Years later, while he was cleaning up some papers and belongings of his mother, he came across that letter the teacher had sent. He opened it and started to read it “Mrs. Edison, your son is stupid and cannot keep up with his classmates. We just cannot keep him in our school anymore. He is today being expelled from our school. Maybe you can teach him something yourself at home.” Thomas instantly understood what his mother had done. Then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas was a stupid boy who did not deserve to be in the same class as his fellow classmates, but his mother was able to teach him everything single-handedly, and transform him into one of the biggest inventors of the century.”