was Abraham Lincoln well educated?

Answer 1

His formal education consisted of perhaps 18 months of schooling from unofficial teachers. In effect he was self-educated, studying every book he could borrow. He mastered the Bible, William Shakespeare's works, English history and American history, and developed a plain style that puzzled audiences more used to grandiloquent oratory. He was a local wrestler and skilled with an axe; some of the rails he split were exhibited at the 1860 Republican National Convention, as the party celebrated the poor-boy-made-good theme. He avoided hunting and fishing because he did not like killing animals even for food and, though unusually tall and strong, spent so much time reading that some neighbors thought he must be doing it to avoid strenuous manual labor.

Answer 2

By the standards of his time and place yes. But more important than that, he was a scholarly person. Alot of people with much more education today are really just getting a middle class union card and are not thinkers at all.

Answer 3

Lincoln was self taught mostly. Here's an article that goes into detail about how he grew up and learned things.

http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950229.html

Answer 4

Well, kinda. He came from a poor background, so his family didn't have access to Yahoo Answers.

Answer 5

He had a bad life, but I'm pretty sure.

Answer 6

who?