Benjamin Franklin and Education: His Ideal of Life and His System (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Benjamin Franklin and Education: His Ideal of Life and His System

I have endeavored in this volume to give a simple presentation of F ranklin's ideal of life, and the means whereby an individual might attain nearest to this ideal in his own life. I have conceded that there was a great gulf be tween the ideal Franklin and the real F ranklin, and I have indicated that there are proofs of this fact in his writings, but I have touched lightly upon this topic because it was the ideal and not the real I was attempting to portray, believing as I do that it was this ideal which made F ranklin the great and good man that he was, and that it still has power to lift up from poverty many another boy to eminence and.

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