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"Readin, Writin, and Cipherin"
Abraham Lincoln was largely uneducated on his arrival in Illinois. He attended Kentucky and Indiana "A.B.C." schools for less than a year, picking up, as he later wrote, the ability to "read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three; but that was all." The youngster was later remembered to have read whatever the neighborhood provided, including biographies, primers, anthologies, and such classics as Aesop's Fables. |