Lyndon Johnson Administrations - Education
Education
Johnson began his education at age four in a one-room school near his rural home. In 1913 the family moved to Johnson City where he enrolled in the first grade. Johnson graduated from Johnson City High School in 1921, finishing second in a class of six. Always yearning for leadership and recognition he was senior class president, leader of the school debate team, and he gave the student oration at the graduation ceremony.
Because he graduated from an unaccredited high school, Johnson had to pass an entrance examination to be accepted at a state college. During the summer and fall of 1924 he attended several remedial classes at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College in San Marcos, Texas, but he did not do well and did not enroll in regular college classes.
From November 1924 to September 1927, Johnson traveled and worked. For a while he lived in California, and later did manual labor in Johnson City and Blanco...
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