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College Educations of US Presidents... 20% Never Went to College

• rev_bird 12y ago
  To save you the trouble of scrolling through the kind of lame UI: Truman was the last president to not have a degree, and he left office more than 69 years ago. To be honest, this kind of seems like saying "91 percent of presidents never owned a cell phone"; it might be true, but it doesn't make a ton of sense in a broader context.
  • _delirium 12y ago
    And the period when Truman would've attended college, if he had done so at ages 18-22, would've been 1902-1906. At that time, quite a small percentage of people went to college. Nonetheless, he did apply to West Point, but was turned down for poor eyesight.
• jacalata 12y ago
  This is downright misleading when presented in the context of "the pros and cons of college". Pro: some presidents didn't go to college, so you too could be president without going to college! Con: you will have to travel back in time about a century for that to be relevant.
  • justizin 12y ago
    Yes, going to college is the first in a long series of exercises you'll perform to show that you are qualified to be president based on doing what other people tell you. ;)