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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Signer, Pennsylvania. Autograph letter signed ("B Franklin") to Governor Francis Bernard, Philadelphia, 28 March 1764. 1½ pages, 4to, fine.
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Signer, Pennsylvania. Autograph letter signed ("B Franklin") to Governor Francis Bernard, Philadelphia, 28 March 1764. 1½ pages, 4to, fine.
LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: A FRANKLIN COMMENTARY
A friendly letter to the Governor of Massachusetts in which Benjamin Franklin discusses aspects of college life in the early years of the University of Pennsylvania. Initially founded in 1751 as the Academy for the Education of Youth, Franklin intended that the college occupy a position as the most liberal in the colonies, offering not only courses in classic studies, but providing an education in the sciences, history, agriculture, government and modern languages. The effort to teach students contemporary subjects in a non-religious setting was unique to North America and set standards for the future of education in the United States.
Franklin begins the letter with pleasantries and business matters: "I am favour'd with yours of the 17th with the Letters return'd concerning Sturgeon. I lately sent you a good Rect. for Pickling, which I hope got to hand. I shall forward your Son's Letter to Mr. Johnston. Enclos'd is one I recd a few Days since from the Gentleman. I paid his Order, as you will see by the Receipt. Please to pay the sum, £12.12.0 ...to Mr Jonathan Williams, who has acknowledg'd the Rect of the former." Discussing the living arrangements for students at the college, Franklin writes: "At our College here, they have not yet got into the Collegiate Way of living that was intended in the new Building, so that our Scholars still lodge & board in private Houses; the Expence I understand is about 40£ prAnn, for Diet, Lodging, Washing, Mending, & Tuition. I know not when the other Method will be entered upon, nor can the Expence yet be ascertain'd."
Franklin believed that education was an integral part of the development of society and worked to establish foundations for formal and informal learning. He wrote: "The idea of what is true Merit should also be often presented to Youth, explain'd and impress'd on the Minds, as consisting in an Inclination joined with an Ability to serve Mankind, one's Country, Friends and Family; which Ability is (with the Blessing of God) to be acquir'd or greatly increas'd by true Learning; and should indeed be the great Aim and End of all Learning" (Wright, Franklin of Philadelphia, p. 40).
LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: A FRANKLIN COMMENTARY
A friendly letter to the Governor of Massachusetts in which Benjamin Franklin discusses aspects of college life in the early years of the University of Pennsylvania. Initially founded in 1751 as the Academy for the Education of Youth, Franklin intended that the college occupy a position as the most liberal in the colonies, offering not only courses in classic studies, but providing an education in the sciences, history, agriculture, government and modern languages. The effort to teach students contemporary subjects in a non-religious setting was unique to North America and set standards for the future of education in the United States.
Franklin begins the letter with pleasantries and business matters: "I am favour'd with yours of the 17th with the Letters return'd concerning Sturgeon. I lately sent you a good Rect. for Pickling, which I hope got to hand. I shall forward your Son's Letter to Mr. Johnston. Enclos'd is one I recd a few Days since from the Gentleman. I paid his Order, as you will see by the Receipt. Please to pay the sum, £12.12.0 ...to Mr Jonathan Williams, who has acknowledg'd the Rect of the former." Discussing the living arrangements for students at the college, Franklin writes: "At our College here, they have not yet got into the Collegiate Way of living that was intended in the new Building, so that our Scholars still lodge & board in private Houses; the Expence I understand is about 40£ prAnn, for Diet, Lodging, Washing, Mending, & Tuition. I know not when the other Method will be entered upon, nor can the Expence yet be ascertain'd."
Franklin believed that education was an integral part of the development of society and worked to establish foundations for formal and informal learning. He wrote: "The idea of what is true Merit should also be often presented to Youth, explain'd and impress'd on the Minds, as consisting in an Inclination joined with an Ability to serve Mankind, one's Country, Friends and Family; which Ability is (with the Blessing of God) to be acquir'd or greatly increas'd by true Learning; and should indeed be the great Aim and End of all Learning" (Wright, Franklin of Philadelphia, p. 40).