Take Hope, Parents and Teachers
Today's Failure May Be Tomorrow's Success

        Identifying talent is not an easy task.  In fact, history has recorded many instances of creative and imaginative people whose
        talents were not initially recognized by their contemporaries or whose talents were not evident at an early age.
 

• Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.

• Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College.

• Werner von Braun flunked 9th grade algebra.

• Beethoven's music teacher once said of him, "As a composer, he is hopeless."

• Caruso's music teacher told him, "you can't sing, you have no voice at all."

• Madame Schumann Heink was told by the director of the Imperial Opera in Vienna that she would never be a singer and               advised her to buy a sewing machine.

• Fred Waring was once rejected for his high school choral group.

• Thomas Edison was told by one of his teachers he was too stupid to learn anything.

• F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21 but his employers would not let him wait on a customer                 because he "didn't have enough sense."

• Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he had "no good ideas."

• Charles Schulz was once reprimanded by a high school teacher for wasting time doodling in class and told him he would                   never amount to anything if he kept doing that.

• Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college.

• Louisa May Alcott was told by an editor that she could never write anything that had popular appeal.

• Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War as a captain and came out a private.

• Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.

• Apparently after some misbehavior, Bill Cosby's mother sent a note to the fourth grade teacher explaining,                                              "My son thinks he is funny."  (Apparently he was right.)