THOUGHT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ON EDUCATION AND LESSONS LEARNED TOWARDS EDUCATION IN VIETNAM
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Benjamin Franklin, who is widely known as the inventor of the lightning rod and one of the founding fathers of the United States, had progressive thoughts on education. “Possibly no other practical man has given in his writings a fuller and clearer statement of what education should do for one than has Franklin” (Cloyd, 1902, p.3). However, his educational thought has not been clarified yet (see: Cook, 2010). Accordingly, this paper analyzes some of his prominent educational viewpoints and draws from them some lessons learned towards the current Vietnamese education.
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