[Clintonfatigued]

IMHO, Nancy Edison is an inspiring Mother's Day story. She could even be a role model for mothers who homeschool their children.

[Full Court]

Excellent post ping

[Reily]

I find Edison to be overrated.
Yes he was a genius and a great inventor.
If you read about his battles with Westinghouse, Steinmetz etc. the Edison star gets some tarnish.
The ethics of some business practices were also questionable. For example, often those he couldn't beat with technology, he beat them with savvy (Even dishonest!) marketing, or got the government involved to control the competition. (the DC vs AC battles come to mind!)
Also his lack of formal training in mathematics diminished his considerable intellectual skills.

[kinoxi]

quite an amazing story about a mother on mother's day

[Born Conservative]

[wintertime]

Nancy Edison- Homeschooling Pioneer Woman

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Actually, Nancy Edison wasn't a pioneer in homeschooling. Homeschooling was the norm for most of the 200,000 years of human existence.

It is the factory-like institutionalization of children for their education that is really abnormal. Even my 93 year old parents and many of their generation educated in one room school houses would barely recognize the monstrous system of indoctrination ( mis-named "education") that our nation's children must endure today.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The thing I found illuminating about Edison was when I learned that he had not only "invented the electric light," he founded General Electric to make the light bulbs, and Consolidated Edison power company to power the light bulbs. He was not merely an inventor, he was a very successful entrepreneur. If he had merely been an inventor, he probably would not have gained enduring fame - for only entrepreneurs truly prove the worth of their ideas.

[Clintonfatigued]

homeschooling ping

[bboop]

She was my model when I started homeschool. She paid him $1 for each book he read; THAT was her curriculum. It was a perfect fit for us. (without the $1).

[kalee]

ping