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The early education of our next president; Not much in public schools.(feature)
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Education Next
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September 22, 2008
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One of them, Barack Obama, was awakened at four in the morning in Jakarta to study from a correspondence course; the other, John McCain, attended grade school in old airplane hangars. Both went on to elite private high schools.
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Whether it is the image of Abraham Lincoln studying by log cabin candlelight or George Washington dutifully copying the Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation into his schoolboy notebooks, presidential schooling has long been a national fascination (see Figure 1).
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Today we have a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law (Obama) taking on a graduate of the ...