Thomas Edison spent 3 months in school. His mother went in to discuss some of the problems. She disliked the teacher so much, she pulled Thomas from school.
She taught him to read, write and do math then left him to study what he wanted on his own, with some guidance. While some may say, "But she had been a school teacher!", please remember that there was no training for teachers back then. They simply taught they way they were taught, for the most part, and could become teachers often as young as 15 or 16. Also, she only did the early teaching and he learned independently after that on a wide variety of subjects.
Guided gently by his parents but still left to choose what he studied, he ended up studying lots of literature, history and science. When he discovered scientific works no school would ever have taught from, he became hooked.
2006-09-03
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