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'''2. What do you like about Thomas Edison, and do you think homeschooling him created enormous wealth?''' Of the many things I love about Thomas Edison, one trait that particularly sticks out was his extremely motivational, never giving up attitude. Edison said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." In just one sentence, a few words, Edison is displaying a huge amount of character. It is amazing how much motiviation is put into just one quote, and how much power it can have over the reader: I know for myself this convicts me of all the times I have given up or been too lazy to do something, and makes me want to keep going, even when I feel like giving up!

'''2. What do you like about Thomas Edison, and do you think homeschooling him created enormous wealth?''' Of the many things I love about Thomas Edison, one trait that particularly sticks out was his extremely motivational, never giving up attitude. Edison said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." In just one sentence, a few words, Edison is displaying a huge amount of character. It is amazing how much motiviation is put into just one quote, and how much power it can have over the reader: I know for myself this convicts me of all the times I have given up or been too lazy to do something, and makes me want to keep going, even when I feel like giving up!

I think being homeschooled DEFINITELY helped - as you stated in class and in the lecture, his teacher called him an idiot and wrote him off as worthless in her class as a learner. If he had instead of being taken out of public school stayed in for the rest of his years of learning, he could have been time and time again ignored and ridiculed and thought lower and lower of himself. Instead of being encouraged day after day like his Mother did, which helped him form his amazing worth ethic, public school had the potential to lower him. Yes, there is a chance that if his character was truly persevering and motivational he could have overcome what the teachers were saying and still turned out to be the ingenius influential inventor that he was, but in the long run, the years spent in the public school system that at least when he was younger only discouraged him would probably have been a waste of time. Nothing beats the encouragement and hope of being taught at home by a loving, believing in her children mother like Thomas Edison had!

I think being homeschooled DEFINITELY helped - as you stated in class and in the lecture, his teacher called him an idiot and wrote him off as worthless in her class as a learner. If he had instead of being taken out of public school stayed in for the rest of his years of learning, he could have been time and time again ignored and ridiculed and thought lower and lower of himself. Instead of being encouraged day after day like his Mother did, which helped him form his amazing worth ethic, public school had the potential to lower him. Yes, there is a chance that if his character was truly persevering and motivational he could have overcome what the teachers were saying and still turned out to be the ingenius influential inventor that he was, but in the long run, the years spent in the public school system that at least when he was younger only discouraged him would probably have been a waste of time. Nothing beats the encouragement and hope of being taught at home by a loving, believing in her children mother like Thomas Edison had!