“The 1993 Canadian federal election resulted in a landslide victory for Jean Chrétien’s Liberal Party and the near-total collapse of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, which was reduced from a majority government to just two seats in the House of Commons.”
トーマス・エジソンが行っていた学校の先生からのメモにあった言葉”Your son is addled 貴方の息子は知的に問題があります”を “Your son is a genius. 貴方の息子は天才です”とエジソンの母ナンシーは言い換えて息子に伝えました。この言い換えがなかったら、きっと発明王エジソンはこの世に出ていなかったでしょう。
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One day 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 later, after Edison’s mother had died, he was looking through old family things. Now one of the greatest inventors of the century, he suddenly saw a folded piece of paper in the corner of a desk drawer.
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 anymore.”
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.”
“He spoke so well of you long before we met, and I’m not surprised to see that you are now the Prime Minister, and he would be very happy to know that.”
