Does Thomas Edison's Statement And Attitude Support The Idea Of Student Centered Learning

Do you know who created the light bulb? His name was Thomas Edison, and he was a brilliant man. But he did not just create it on his first try. It took him hundreds of tries to finally create a working one. This is what students should do for all of their tasks in life and school. Thomas Edison stated, “Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won’t work!” This essay is to explain how Thomas Edison’s statement and attitude support the idea of student centered learning by using details and information provided by the two passages “To Really Learn, Fail - Then Fail Again!” and “New Math: Fail + Try Again = Real Learning.”

The first bit of proof that what Edison said supports the idea of student-centered learning is that when kids use the method that Edison used, they tend to remember what they learned more often. This is stated in the passage “To Really Learn, Fail - Then Fail Again!” when Susan Moran wrote, “Along the way, many students will fail. Often, they’ll fail many times. Perhaps not several thousand times (like Edison). But along the way they may just find out that by analyzing why something went horribly wrong, they’ve learned a lot.” This is important for things like tests and worksheets that require the students to remember or refer back to what they have done or learned.
This is brought up when in “To Really Learn, Fail - Then Fail Again!” when Susan Moron stated, “What’s more, he adds, students who practice this method in middle school and high school are more likely to continue to study science in college.” This is helpful for college because it is very much required to study and research topics and subjects in college to get by with a good