This video is about the inspiring story of a mother that raised the inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison. It dramatically shows how a positive word of encouragement can help change anyone’s destiny. It also reflects how the power of a mother can change the destiny of her child.
Transcript:
One day, the young Thomas Edison came home and handed a paper to his mother from his school. He told her: “My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to give it only to you.”
His mother’s eyes were tearful as she read the letter out loud to her son:
“Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.”
Edison’s mother decided to educate her son at home, abandoning the school that Edison had attended for only three months. She prepared an excellent homeschooling routine for her son, and Edison left his school behind without a second thought.
After years Edison’s mother died and he was renowned as one of the greatest inventors of the century. One day he was going through his old family things. Suddenly he noticed a folded paper in the corner of a drawer. He took it and opened it up.
On the paper was written: “Your son is addled. We will not allow him to attend our institution any longer.”
Thomas Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary:
“Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by a hero mother, became the genius of the century.”
At the very end of his life, Edison famously quoted: “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had someone to live for, someone I must not disappoint.”
Moral of the story:
Never let anybody shatter your dreams.
Edison’s mother’s courage and constant faith in her son’s abilities made him the genius he grew up to be. With a mother’s love as true and strong as Nancy Edison’s, anything is possible.
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