...interested in grammar and the English language - the only language, unfortunately, that I ever learned. I could read, write and cipher to the rule of three, but that was about all. Any advance I now have on this store of learning, I picked up under the pressure of necessity....

...was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. ... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all." Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm,...

...for the schools of his Hoosier youth: "There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three; but that was all." Lincoln passed a harsh judgment on the common schools of Indiana, one in which many concurred.5 Lincoln's...

...sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizzard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age...and cipher to the Rule of Three; but that was all." The earliest days of my being able to read, I got hold of a small book, Weems' "Life of Washington."...

...year It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher. . . but that was all. Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to educate himself. Starting when he was twelve,...

...recalled. Though he had spent little time in school, "Still somehow," he remembered, at twenty-one, "I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all. I was never in a college or academy as a student. What I have in the way of education I have picked up,...

...months before becoming the presidential candidate of a fledgling Republican Party, said that when he came of age, "I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher . . . but that was all." Born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, he grew up in Indiana....

...beyond readin', 141 writin', and cipherin' to the rule of three. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of...much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher, but that was all. I have not been to school since." He certainly wasn't trying to impress anyone with...

...in all his life."192 "The little advance I now have upon this store of education," Lincoln declared, "I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity."193 Speaking in the third person, he said, "He regrets his want of education, and does what...

...Indiana, where he grew up, "was a wild region." And his schooling? "There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course when I came of age...from time to time under the pressure of necessity." Letters kept coming about the House Divided speech, Just what did it mean? He would quote its opening...