#Thomas edison 5 percent think how to#
Reading Paine, Edison later said, taught him how to think.Īt the Port Huron Union School, Edison studied mathematics, science, and drawing-all of which prepared him for his future career. Edison's father, Samuel, a great admirer of Paine's political thought, had a set of Paine's collected works. "My mother taught me how to read good books quickly and correctly," he later recalled, "and as this opened up a great world in literature, I have always been thankful for this early training." Edison remained an avid reader for the rest of his life.Īmong the writers Edison read in these early days, sometimes together with his mother, were English historian Edward Gibbon, the Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume, and the revolutionary Thomas Paine. "Your father, not being very flush with money, I did not urge him to pay the school bill."Įdison credited his mother with being his most important teacher. "You will remember that some years ago, you attended School under my direction (& my wife's) at Port Huron," Engle wrote. In 1885, Engle, who was retired without salary, wrote Edison to ask for financial help. George Engle in 1854, and later, from 1859-1860, the publicly supported Port Huron Union School in Michigan. Thomas A.Edison's exposure to formal education in boyhood was limited, but he did attend the private school of the Rev.
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