Comments on: The Education of the Presidents https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-education-of-the-presidents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-education-of-the-presidents Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Sat, 09 Jan 2016 23:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Hankering for History https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-education-of-the-presidents/#comment-473 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:50:00 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=2661#comment-473 In reply to Raising LifeLongLearners.

True, key word is ‘used.’ But playing the devil’s advocate… one could also say that Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Andrew Johnson are three of the worst presidents we had, and with some formal education, maybe they would have been better. (Their names are found in the Top 10 list of Worst Presidents at:
http://www.usnews.com/news/history/features/the-10-worst-presidents, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States#Scholar_survey_results, http://listverse.com/2007/11/06/top-10-worst-us-presidents/, and more.)

]]> By: Raising LifeLongLearners https://hankeringforhistory.com/the-education-of-the-presidents/#comment-472 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:23:00 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=2661#comment-472 Interesting how the two greatest, most recognizable presidents in our history (Washington and Lincoln) did not attend college. Maybe, we don’t need to focus so much on getting the degree but on the learning that used to be associated with it.

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