How Ben Franklin Learned: Four Short Stories for Young Readers by Edward Eggleston (PDF ebook) – Few people ever knew so many things as did Benjamin Franklin. Men said, "How did he ever learn so many things?" For he had been a poor boy who had to work for a living. He could not go to school at all after he was ten years old.
Here are four neat stories of young Benjamin Franklin, which may just motivate your own kids to "learn to learn" for themselves. Included are the stories of how young Franklin taught himself, how an ant helped him find out things for himself, his experiments with electricity and the kite, and the story of paying too much for a penny whistle.
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Thanks for the resource, Jim. My son will LOVE reading this!
Thank you for the information on BenFranklin, it is, as always, a treasure.
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