I
know I am hard on public education. Not everyone is a genius. So there
are schools. YET.. we must understand that school and even college is
not suitable for the very bright. I wonder how much genius has be
crushed by public education. Thomas Edison is one of the greatest
inventors in the last 200 years.. yet with almost no formal education.
Remarkably, Thomas Edison did not attend a college or university and never even had a formal education. He attended school for only a few months as a child, with his mother teaching him arithmetic, reading and writing at home.
Remarkably, Thomas Edison did not attend a college or university and never even had a formal education. He attended school for only a few months as a child, with his mother teaching him arithmetic, reading and writing at home.
Edison spent much of his childhood in Port Huron, Mich. A curious
youngster, he spent a lot of his free time reading books on his own and
trying experiments in his basement. Edison believed that instead of
teaching students to memorize, they should be instructed to observe
nature and learn the "hands-on" way. Edison's perspective certainly
worked for him, as he had 1,093 U.S. patents, more than anyone else in
history.
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