One day, young Thomas Edison returned home from school and gave his mother a letter from his teacher. The mother read the letter out loud to her son, with tears in her eyes: “Your son is a genius. This school is too small, and there are no teachers here who can teach him anything. Please teach him yourself.”
Many years after the death of his mother (Edison by that time was already one of the greatest inventors of the century), he one day was looking through old family archives and came across this letter. He opened it and read: “Your son is mentally retarded. We can no longer teach him at school with everyone else. Therefore, we recommend that you teach him yourself at home.”
Edison cried for several hours. Then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was a mentally retarded child. Thanks to his heroic mother, he became one of the greatest geniuses of his century.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru