Dr. Seuss Effect On Children

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At age eighteen, Theodor attended Dartmouth College. After graduating from Dartmouth, Theodor went to Oxford University in England and studied literature from 1925-1926. Dr. Seuss was more interested in telling a good story than he was telling a true story. He later left Oxford and became a cartoonist. In 1955, Dartmouth gave him his first honorary doctorate. Theodor became one of the few people to earn a Ph.D. by dropping out of graduate school. Seuss then pursued his love of drawing. Some may say that Dr. Seuss only effected children and continues to affect them but that’s not always the

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