A note from our local homeschooling chapter
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One of the women in my homeschooling group sent us this e-mail and I thought
you guys might like to read it
his card isn't quite up to date. It only covers up to his re-election.)
What I found most interesting was the way that most of the Presidents were
educated up through Truman. Here is some of what the cards say...
Harry S Truman - could not afford college. He got his education the hard
way, in the army.
Warren Harding - worked at many different jobs as a boy, one of which was a
printer's apprentice. At 14 he entered Ohio Central College...
Theodore Roosevelt - was tutored at home until he went to Harvard where he
was a Phi Beta Kappa honor student.
Benjamin Harrison - attended school in a log cabin his father had built. He
graduated from Miami University (Ohio).... fourth in his class.
James A. Garfield - attended school only three months of the year, but he
loved learning and read a lot.
Rutherford B. Hayes - went to private school and received some of his
education at home.
Ulysses S. Grant - worked in his father's tannery and on the family farm...
In 1839 (age 17) he went to West Point and excelled in mathematics.
Andrew Johnson - was apprenticed to a tailor at 14.... he had learned to
read a little, and his wife taught him to write.
Abraham Lincoln - received no more than a year of schooling, but read every
book he could borrow and became a master of the English language.
James Buchanan - loved to learn and worked hard in his father's store. He
went to Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and eventually graduated with
honors.
Millard Fillmore - spent his early youth working with his father.... He
educated himself and attended New Hope Academy for six months.
Zachary Taylor - had little or no formal education, except for a small
school in Louisville, Kentucky.
William Henry Harrison - was first educated at home, attended Hampden-Sidney
College in Virginia, and studied medicine but gave it up to join the army.
John Quincy Adams - was educated in a village school, then under the
guidance of his mother.
John Adams - grew up on a farm and was very athletic. At 16 he went to
Harvard....
George Washington - had no formal schooling.
All those not listed here went to either private or public schools. Each
card specifies the school or "a school," etc. except the ones listed above.
Did you know that only 1/4 of the U.S. Presidents went to public schools?
The rest went to college only (no early education), private schools, no
school at all, or were educated at home! Yet, the "powers that be" say that
you can't get a good education unless you go to "school" for 12 years. And
most of the time, they mean public school!
Public schools these days (and even many private schools that accept
state/federal $$) are not about education, they are about indoctrination ~
the "it takes a village" mentality.<<
you guys might like to read it
>>I just bought this U.S. Presidents Fact Pack from Wal-Mart. It has someinteresting information about all the Presidents (including Clinton, though
his card isn't quite up to date. It only covers up to his re-election.)
What I found most interesting was the way that most of the Presidents were
educated up through Truman. Here is some of what the cards say...
Harry S Truman - could not afford college. He got his education the hard
way, in the army.
Warren Harding - worked at many different jobs as a boy, one of which was a
printer's apprentice. At 14 he entered Ohio Central College...
Theodore Roosevelt - was tutored at home until he went to Harvard where he
was a Phi Beta Kappa honor student.
Benjamin Harrison - attended school in a log cabin his father had built. He
graduated from Miami University (Ohio).... fourth in his class.
James A. Garfield - attended school only three months of the year, but he
loved learning and read a lot.
Rutherford B. Hayes - went to private school and received some of his
education at home.
Ulysses S. Grant - worked in his father's tannery and on the family farm...
In 1839 (age 17) he went to West Point and excelled in mathematics.
Andrew Johnson - was apprenticed to a tailor at 14.... he had learned to
read a little, and his wife taught him to write.
Abraham Lincoln - received no more than a year of schooling, but read every
book he could borrow and became a master of the English language.
James Buchanan - loved to learn and worked hard in his father's store. He
went to Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and eventually graduated with
honors.
Millard Fillmore - spent his early youth working with his father.... He
educated himself and attended New Hope Academy for six months.
Zachary Taylor - had little or no formal education, except for a small
school in Louisville, Kentucky.
William Henry Harrison - was first educated at home, attended Hampden-Sidney
College in Virginia, and studied medicine but gave it up to join the army.
John Quincy Adams - was educated in a village school, then under the
guidance of his mother.
John Adams - grew up on a farm and was very athletic. At 16 he went to
Harvard....
George Washington - had no formal schooling.
All those not listed here went to either private or public schools. Each
card specifies the school or "a school," etc. except the ones listed above.
Did you know that only 1/4 of the U.S. Presidents went to public schools?
The rest went to college only (no early education), private schools, no
school at all, or were educated at home! Yet, the "powers that be" say that
you can't get a good education unless you go to "school" for 12 years. And
most of the time, they mean public school!
Public schools these days (and even many private schools that accept
state/federal $$) are not about education, they are about indoctrination ~
the "it takes a village" mentality.<<