Age Quote by John Taylor Gatto
![“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen…” quote by John Taylor Gatto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/95b/john-taylor-gatto-4736_age_as-a-writer-politician-scientist-and-bus_517341.jpg)
“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.”
![“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a44/nikola-tesla-1383_accomplishment_his-thomas-edison-method-was-inefficient_1165798.jpg)
![“I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby, cared for no sport or amusement of any…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e99/nikola-tesla-1383_amusement_i-came-from-paris-in-the-spring-of-1884_1434856.jpg)
