Andrew Johnson Administration - Education
Education
Andrew Johnson received no formal schooling. While Johnson was an apprentice, however, the shop foreman, James Litchford, and a local minister, Dr. Hill, read aloud to the apprentices as they worked; a typical workshop practice in the early nineteenth century. From these two men Johnson learned the fundamentals of reading. This experience of listening to the words of the important orators of Great Britain, such as William Pitt the younger and Charles James Fox, stirred and influenced Johnson. Johnson continued to educate himself during his years of wandering, but his wife would be his best teacher. Better educated than Johnson, Eliza McCardle Johnson encouraged her husband to read and write, tutored him, and taught him some math skills.
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