Young Thomas Edison came home one day with a paper for his mother. He told her,"My teacher told me to give this paper only to my mother. "
Thomas 's mother read the 1 and her eyes filled with tears. Thomas asked his mother what the note said and she read aloud,"Your son is a genius (天才). This school is too 2 for him and doesn 't have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself. "
And that 's 3 Thomas 's mother did. She did her best to teach her child at home. Many years later, he became one of the world 's greatest inventors. After Thomas Edison 's mother died, he went through the old family things. And he found the folded paper that was given to him by his teacher for his mother. He 4 the paper and read the note, "Your son is mentally ill. He is always asking many strange questions. We won 't let him come to school anymore. "At that moment, Edison realized what his mother had done for him so many years ago. He wrote in his diary, "Thomas Edison wasn 't a smart child, 5 a hero mother made him become a genius. "
