Schools are not actually teaching kids nowadays, they are just making them act like good and obedient robots that should follow what they are being told. Throwing at them a lot of useless and hard to process information about various things, expecting them to learn... excuse me to remember all that for no apparent reason and for no future use. Just to let them rediscover some of these things later on in life if/when they may actually need them.

Schools nowadays do not promote creativity or thinking for yourself, you just need to learn what you are being told and that should be enough... I said learn again, correction, remember some facts and numbers as well as what goes where, not learn why and how it does it, but just remember the order it happens. Robots and more robots, easy to control and not thinking for themselves, just following what they are being told.

I remember from my school days that there were just two teachers that were different in their approach and I'm grateful to these people that actually helped in shaping me and most importantly my mind and helping me turn to what I have become. It is a shame that they were just two out of many, many that were like robots themselves, not caring much about what they were actually teaching and most importantly how!

Guess why they are not teaching anything about Tesla or other unconventional people in school, because it is not the norm and they just won't deviate from it... otherwise the little robots may decide to revolt and start thinking for themselves.

Tesla is a rare person.  I was more impressed by him than Einstein (who I also admire) and many others.   Edison I didn't respect much as I know he got famous basically by putting his name on other people's work (I know he DID do some of his own too).     Yet....  Tesla.     If I go back in time perhaps Da Vinci was similar in historical sense.    Then to find anyone else I'd have to go way back, and so much of that literature was destroyed by Christians and others burning books and libraries.     There are hints that Pythagoras may have been a person of some seriously interesting traits as well.

Both of my parents were hippies.   Lot's of sitting around a fire singing songs.     We also had pet Doves... I got really good at doing dove calls, and their little sucking in and singing thing they do that sounds kind of like a kazoo.

Yes, but we have [Atomic Robo](http://www.atomic-robo.com/), that is there to put Tesla back into public conciousness. As well has a lot of Action! Science! And the eponymous Robo. Which is quite cool.

Of course Tesla the real scientist is cooler than Tesla the cartoon scientist, but the comic is really good.

As a side note Tesla is really well known in Russia. And we have one of largest [Tesla coils in the world](https://www.rt.com/news/170704-tesla-tower-lightning-russia/) near Moscow. I suppose some Russian Steemian should go visit it, and write an article with photos about it for some ultra-mega-giga watts, err, I mean bucks! :-D