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Renowned American inventor Thomas Edison was famously homeschooled by his mother, who was a teacher by training. Young Edison's troubles with a formal classroom setting, as well as his affection for his mother are well documented. Edison's early life is succinctly described in the National Park Service's biography of him: According to a U.S. Library of Congress biography of Edison, he was indeed labeled addled by a school administrator, an event that led his mother to remove him from school, but this information was not conveyed to her in a letter nor was it hidden by her from young Thomas: Based on fictitious combinations of various actual slivers of truth, a number of heartwarming tales about the decision to homeschool Edison and his ability to overcome early educational struggles have been spun for a century. On November 19, 2016, the Facebook page Love What Really Matters became the latest to follow in that tradition, posting a video based on the text from a >reddit post. The video's script reads as follows: The veracity of this version of events, however, is belied by the actual account given by Thomas Edison himself in a rare interview to a long-extinct newspaper and literary journal called T.P's Weekly published on 29 November 1907. This interview is the earliest documented account of Edison's leaving formal schooling and is therefore likely to be the source of the historical fiction regarding his early education: As Edison's first-person account stated, no letter to his mother was involved in these events, and Edison was never kept out of the loop for the sake of sparing his already hurt feelings. One of the most prolific and ingenious inventors of all time, Thomas Edison would be homeschooled until he set out on his own at the age of sixteen, openly grateful for his mother's support and education throughout his life.
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