Tesla Reading

I don’t recall any teacher who discussed invention, inventors, patents, history, genius, creativity, electricity, electric power, radar, TV, alternating current, the wireless, MRI scans, atom smashers, the radio, or the Nobel Prize ever mentioning Nikola Tesla. It was only years later that I truly discovered Tesla and his amazing accomplishments that transformed America.

Tesla was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and inventor who was born in Croatia. As a young man, he immigrated to the U.S. with only four cents in his pocket. Once in New York City, Edison hired him to be his assistant. During their time together, they engaged in many arguments about how inefficient Edison’s electricity technique was, culminating in a claim by Tesla that he could improve the efficiency of Edison’s DC dynamos. Edison told Tesla that what he suggested was impossible—in fact, Edison challenged him and said if Tesla could do what he claimed, he would reward him with a $50,000 bonus and a hefty raise.

Tesla did the impossible. But when he asked Edison for his bonus and raise, Edison merely congratulated him for his achievement. As for the promised bonus or increase his salary? According to witnesses, Edison brushed it off: “You don’t understand American humor. We always joke about money. The offer was a joke.” Edison then registered Tesla’s work as his own and patented it. This ended the partnership between the two.

What the author mentions in paragraph 1 seems to indicate ..... .

1) something logically expected

2) a flaw in present-day educational efficiency

What do you think? I think it's #2 because I don't understand what logical expectation the writer is hinting at. Possibly logic should tell me that a writer would not mention all those neglected areas if he did not intend to show that Tesla was outstanding in all of them.

Thank you.