Lincoln tried to show that he lived a simple life, especially in his childhood. He grew up in a log cabin settling “in an unbroken forest; and the clearing away of surplus wood”2 as his job. He constantly chopped up wood as a child and also “was raised to farm”3 and continued to do so until his early twenties. When he was young, his mother died, and his father remarried another woman a year later. Lincoln also claimed, “the aggregate of all his schooling did not amount to one year.”4 He had a fairly simple and a normal education just like most of his peers. Unknown to the world, nothing special stood out about …show more content…
It almost sounded like he had received little to no education at all because of how simple it was. Lincoln attended school, but “no qualification was ever required of a teacher, beyond ‘readin, writin, and cipherin,’ to the Rule of Three.”5 He himself even learned the Rule of Three but claims that was all he learned and didn’t go to school after that. Lincoln, here, strongly suggests that he came from the common people. He was an ordinary child who received the same education as all the other children during that time. He only furthered his education by himself and became a self-taught man. He read books and studied English grammar “imperfectly of course,”6 so he could become a