Theodore Roosevelt Administrations - Education
Education
Roosevelt never enrolled in a public school. He was mostly instructed by private tutors until he entered Harvard College in 1876. As a collegian Roosevelt took no interest in writing themes or forensics. Because he did not think he would enter public life, he never studied elocution or practical debating. His main interests were scientific. He thoroughly enjoyed the study of natural history, and for a time he dreamed of becoming a scientist. He abandoned this goal because, Roosevelt said, at Harvard "they treated biology as purely a science of the laboratory and microscope" failing to understand "the great variety of kinds of work that could be done by naturalists. I had no more desire or ability to be a microscopist and section-cutter than to be a mathematician" (Roosevelt, pp. 29–30). Although Roosevelt decided not to become a scientist, his interest in conservation and the great outdoors never diminished. His first...
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