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Kwendo Opanga writes: “He read deep into the night and would quote what Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King or Abraham Lincoln said when, to whom and on what occasion.” (Saturday Nation, September 3, 2016)

Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known and best-loved presidents of the USA, spent his early days growing up on the frontier, where the family didn’t always have access to schools. It is reported that Lincoln only had one year’s worth of classes between the ages of six and 15, taught whenever the community could find a teacher. Lincoln instead educated himself through reading books. He was fascinated by them and spent nearly every minute of his spare time with his nose in a book, learning about history, philosophy, and literature Books were scarce on the border and he often went out of his way to borrow titles he hadn’t yet read, once walking 20 miles to get a book on the United States. All that reading paid off, especially when it came to the law. Lincoln taught himself enough to pass the bar, and would go on to be a great orator, leader, and president.

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