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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Persons of his capability can be limited by formal teaching. But who knows what he would have done if he'd grown up in an academic library, on self study with a panel of advisors....
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Don't know if you saw the first episode, but Franklin was highly critical of the education received by the upper crust at Harvard as far back as the early 1700's. In effect, he called it a finishing school for the rich. The more things change, the more they stay the same.