Education
Woodrow Wilson was a slow learner as a child. He did not learn to read until the age 9. He was home schooled and taught the basics by his parents until the age of 12 . He then attended school at Charles Heyward Barnwell in Columbia. The year of 1873 he entered Davidson College. At the end of his freshman year he got sick which caused him to drop out. He was a very good student with A's and B's and really seemed to enjoy debate in the Eumenean Society.
After a jump back to good health he enrolled at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) in 1875. Pictured above is an old picture of Princeton University. He did very well at Princeton, he first studied law but decided to give that up and go into politics and become an educator. He enrolled as a graduate student at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he earned a Ph.D. in polictical science. Wilson was the only president to earn a doctorate.
Woodrow Wilson was a slow learner as a child. He did not learn to read until the age 9. He was home schooled and taught the basics by his parents until the age of 12 . He then attended school at Charles Heyward Barnwell in Columbia. The year of 1873 he entered Davidson College. At the end of his freshman year he got sick which caused him to drop out. He was a very good student with A's and B's and really seemed to enjoy debate in the Eumenean Society.
After a jump back to good health he enrolled at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton) in 1875. Pictured above is an old picture of Princeton University. He did very well at Princeton, he first studied law but decided to give that up and go into politics and become an educator. He enrolled as a graduate student at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he earned a Ph.D. in polictical science. Wilson was the only president to earn a doctorate.
In his cap and gown, Wilson walk across the Princeton campus. Woodrow Wilson was elected President of Princeton on 1902.