Why Is Benjamin Franklin Important To Me

In the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, many life lessons were taught. Franklin wrote this autobiography hoping that it would be of interest to his son. The autobiography is a story about Franklins life and how he achieved everything. Franklin was a very honest man and others did value him. Not only was he honest, but he was a very humble soul who wanted the best for not only himself, but other people. Ever since he was a young boy Franklin always helped people. Franklin was also a man of discipline and believed that in order to get better at something one must be disciplined. Although he did not have much education, he knew that it was important in order to further himself in any career. He went to school for a bit and was eventually pulled.

No matter what a person can teach themselves anything as long as they put their mind to it and never give up. As a child Franklin had always been fond of books and would use whatever money he had to purchase them. "FROM a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books" (23). Franklin was pulled from school at the age of ten, so he could help out his father. He taught himself by reading different books that his father had. "My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way" (23) Although, they were not the greatest books Franklin continued to read them. Benjamin was a very ambitious person who wanted to learn how to read and gain knowledge in the English

Towards the end of the autobiography the Proprietors and Franklin are on different sides of the argument on taxing both the people's estates and the Propriety Estates. Later during a court Franklins side pointed out that it is going to be an honest form of taxation and it would not injure anyone. Also, in order to not bankrupt many people, the money given for the kings would not be repealed. Eventually a man named Lord Mansfield, gets both Franklin and Paris to sign an agreement. "The Assembly looked into my entering into the first part of the engagement, as an essential service to the Province, since it secured the credit of the paper money then spread over all the country. They gave me their thanks in form when I return'd"