Our Mission
The example we look to model ourselves after is based on a story that have been told over the years. It is our hope that we can make a meaningful contribution to our society by following her lead. Below is a brief story that provides some detail about the circumstances surrounding some very powerful events in our nations past.
The Power of a Mother - The True Story Behind a Mother Who Believed
One day a very young Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, "My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother." His mother's eyes were tearful as she read the letter out loud to her child: 'Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn't have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.'
Many years after Edison's mother died, and he was now one of the greatest inventors of the century, he was looking through old family things. Suddenly, he saw the familiar folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a desk. He took it and opened it up. On the paper was written: 'Your son is addled [mentally ill]. We won't let him come to school any more.' Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary: "Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by the hero of a mother, became the genius of the century."
The Power of a Mother - The True Story Behind a Mother Who Believed
One day a very young Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, "My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother." His mother's eyes were tearful as she read the letter out loud to her child: 'Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn't have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.'
Many years after Edison's mother died, and he was now one of the greatest inventors of the century, he was looking through old family things. Suddenly, he saw the familiar folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a desk. He took it and opened it up. On the paper was written: 'Your son is addled [mentally ill]. We won't let him come to school any more.' Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary: "Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by the hero of a mother, became the genius of the century."
