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The pedagogic world has tended to make much of
the great influence of teachers Zacariah Riney and Mentor Graham upon
the life of Abraham Lincoln,, Not to be passed over lightly, however, is
the work of his intellectually soul-hungry and ambitious mother, Nancy
Hanks Lincoln, who, though dead before the boy was ten, had stirred his
natural desire to learn into an insatiable appetite to know and to
understand. The tutoring which he received from this understanding and
competent mother was supplemented only by two short terms of school, yet
at the age of eight he could read the Bible with understanding and had
become the neighborhood scribe. Thus "it did set everybody a-wonderin'
to see how much he knowed." |
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