Poem Analysis: Schooling In America

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Benjamin Franklin once said that an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. However one must be willing to learn to gain knowledge.
Benjamin Franklin was correct in saying that the most valuable commodity we can have is knowledge.
Schooling in America is amazing because it is free for everyone As the poem says on line five, six, and seven we have the right to study our world and expand our knowledge and schools in America give people the opportunity the do so. American education allows people to get taught the things they will need to better their life. As the poem says on line eight we hunger for knowledge and with the schooling in America that hunger can be fed and it can grow and blossom into something that betters someone's life.

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