Show education might light be termed passion of abs abraham aham lincoln abfaham Abia hani lincoln once gaie gac to a casual acquaintance hom lie he met on oil a railway rai liNay train the following lais aa w to liis ills education well as to education the acin newspapers spa are cor conict icet I 1 never went to school more than six aix in my life I 1 can call say this that among my earli earliest eRt ic collections I 1 remember how when a mere inere child I 1 used to get irritated when mien miyone anyone talked to me in a way I 1 could not understand I 1 to do not think I 1 ener eer got angry at anything else in ili my life but that always disturbed my iny temper and lias ila ever since I 1 can remember going to my iny little bedroom sifter arter hearing the neighbor nel liboi tall talk 0 of an with my iny rather father and spending III no small part or of tile the night walking up and down donn and trying to make out niina was the exact meaning of sonic some of their to nic me dark sayings I 1 could not steel sleep although I 1 tried to when I 1 got on oil such a hunt for ili an idea until I 1 lind had caught it and when I 1 thought I 1 had got it I 1 was not satisfied until I 1 had put it in ili Ian language guage plain enough a 14 1 I thought for any boy I 1 knew to comprehend tills this was a kind of passion with me and all has haq stuck by me for 1 I am never easy now when I 1 am handling a thought until I 1 have bounded it north and bounded it south and bounded it cast and bounded it N west supplementing these reminiscences by a I 1 few extracts from in an article in the encyclopedia Britan britannica nicu we learn of lincoln that ills dis own mother taught eflin to read and ills stepmother w urged ged him to study he lead and reread in early boyhood the bible aesop robinson crusoe pilgrims grinis progress pro res weems life of washington and history of the lie united states and later lead deiy book lie could bairow boi row from the st burn ind and shakespeare becoming fa colite No lite ile he borrowed a grammar and other books sought explanations from froin tile village schoolmaster and began to road read law in ill 1831 ills his political and colleague john todd stuart a i 1 lawyer biyer in ili full practice lad illg il 11 him hills to fit himself for the bar and had lent him text ext books and lineol lincoln Is working diligently vas admitted to tile the liar har in ill september 1830 riis ills mental qualities a quick analytic anale lie perception pc eption strong logical powers a ten tenacious avious inenio memory ry a liberal estimate and tolerance of tile opinions of others ready of liu lidmill mill atille il and perhaps ills his most valuable faculty wa nv i lare iare ability to divet himself of all feeling or passion in weighing holhos of per persons or problems of state itis IM and aldion 11 tion plain trice forc forcible itle noi lilting anecdotes with humor ind imd rael fascinating ila ting diamatit dial atif lintle skill kill lie ji ae 1 I them cicely iud and en in convocation and argument he lad unchanging falth in ill zelf self government the people lie he bild b ild aie aia the rightful 1 masters of hoth both ro ngn ngi esses and coll coin Is ta not to overthrow avci throw the constitution but to overthrow the lie men who tile the constitution fl etc otc u nl bat tal nf 4 self educated man one of the lie greatest and simplest of americans and one who acquired ly by indomitable will a mastery of salt k lf have their beavins on oil our problems of today which after all are not essentially dlf dif resent from froin the problems of alioe other glinc tl inc that thac tried mens otil |