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Success

We were successful partners, but I had resentments: I was doing twice the work, making twice the contributions of my partner. I complained to a wise friend.
``You're like the hydrogen atom,'' he said. ``The hydrogen atom must make twice the contribution of its oxygen partner if there is to be water. Water is always two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen. Any other mixture is something else. The partnership only clicks where hydrogen does twice the work.''
``Just think'', he concluded, ``of all the barren planets in the universe, where hydrogen is unwilling to work twice as hard as its partner.''

I'd like to tell you the story of two children - two educationally handicapped children.
The parents of the first child were not considered successful. His father was unemployed with no formal schooling. His mother was a teacher- and there was probably tension in the family because of this mismatch.
This child, born in Port Huron, Michigan, was estimated to have an IQ of 81. He was withdrawn from school after three months-and was considered backward by school officials.
Physically, the child enrolled two years late due to scarlet fever and respiratory infections. And he was going deaf. His emotional health was poor-stubborn, aloof, showing very little emotion.
He liked mechanics. He liked to play with fire and burned down his father's barn. He showed some manual dexterity, but used very poor grammar. But he did want to be a scientist and a railroad mechanic.
The second child showed not much more promise.
This child was born of an alcoholic father who worked as an itinerant - a mother who stayed at home.
As a child, she was sickly, bedridden, and often hospitalized.
She was considered erratic and withdrawn. She would bite her nails, and had numerous phobias. She wore a back brace from spinal defect and would constantly seek attention. She was a daydreamer with no vocational skills, although she expressed a desire to help the elderly and the poor.
Who were these children?
The boy from Port Huron became one of the world's greatest inventors - Thomas A. Edison.
And the awkward and sickly young girl, became a champion of the oppressed - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Cynthia Ann Broad; Special Education Teacher; Michigan Teacher of the Year 1990

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