Benjamin Franklin attended two separate schools over a time of two years. At age eight, he attended a Latin school for a few months in which he excelled at the learning. However, his father was forced to remove him due to the heavy expenses of continuing his education. Ben then attended a writing and math school, but after failing his math course he was removed from the school. By age ten, Ben was without an education and had been working at his father's tallow chandler and soap boiling businesses. While Ben's eduction was short lived, I do not think it would be fair to call his education a failure due to external circumstances; yet on the other hand, his education became useless to him, and he became a great worker despite dropping out of his schooling.
I believe any amount of education no matter how small can create a lifetime of skills for an individual. Even if Ben failed arithmetics, his skills from grammar and writing carried him into future priorities in his life. Ben followed his brother James into work as Printer two years after dropping out of writing school (Frazier, 10). To think Ben could have ran The Pennsylvania Gazette without prior knowledge of writing and language doesn't sit well with me. Furthermore, by flunking school I would argue that Ben became a more ambitious individual. It is noted that Ben's determination and ambition is what carried him to his direct accomplishments (Urban, 46). By failing school, Ben's jobs were them limited to his father's professions. He was then forced to work extra hard to find a way of not being a soap boiler. I consider his education a success in that light. I would argue Ben's small backdrop in education was his foundation, and his experience from all his future jobs were what built him into a successful career man.
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