Thomas Edison was certainly very gifted as a child. One teacher called him “addled” which mean stupid. He attended three different schools when he was a child and none of his teachers had the patience to deal with his apparent inability in lack of focus on the matter at hand , and his talkativeness . His mother helped him after he dismissed by the school by let him set up a laboratory on the house, because his mother belief in his natural abilities was in sharp. Even his father seemed to think he was stupid. Despite Edison childhood problems, he became one of the most famous inventor in the world.