"As a young boy, he was curious and outspoken. After only three months in school, the headmaster decided he was a problem child....
So his mother, a former teacher, decided to teach him at home. where she encouraged him to explore and enjoy learning.
Edison was persistent. He rarely gave up on an invention until it turned out the way he wanted it. ...Over his lifetime, he filled more than 3,400 notebooks with his scientific investigations. receiving 1,093 patents. Most of which are still in use.
Some of his inventions include improvements of the telegraph, the telephone, the stock ticker, the alkaline storage battery, the electric light, and the motion picture projector and camera. He experimented with talking motion pictures, but was unable to come up with a workable machine. His most original invention was the phonograph."
text taken from Every Day's a Holiday by Abraham Resnick
Amazing. I only hope that my children have the same outspoken curiousity that Edison possessed.
The same qualities that dubbed him, in the eyes of a school official, A Problem Child.
