Benjamin Franklin only had a formal education up to around age 10 but continued to learn throughout his life and at least four schools gave him honorary
degrees: Harvard, Yale, the College of William and Mary, and Oxford. He also was of the opinion that a person
should strive for moral perfection. He tried to keep a record of this journey in his youth first on paper and then on
ivory charts. Each of his virtues
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block which he would keep track of whether or not he had violated that virtue that day. He never had a perfect weekly chart.
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