Childhood and Education
Oglethorpe was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England, (where he later founded a school) in approximately 1505–10 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was elected a Fellow in 1526 and received his MA in 1529 and his DD in 1536. He was reputed to have taken a keen interest in his studies.
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“Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers.... In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumours of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.”
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