The Quest for Wisdom

Some kids can really surprise you.

Take the great inventor Thomas Edison for example. As a mischievous schoolboy, he was considered by his teachers to be “stupid, restless, inquisitive, asking too many questions and a slow learner.”

And there was Albert Einstein. The self-taught high school dropout was considered “lazy, slow and dreamy,” and he even flunked the entrance examinations in the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich.

As parents, our goal should be to help our children do well in school and to grow in knowledge, but it can’t stop there. There is a huge difference from knowing informati...