Editing Theodore Roosevelt (section)

===Education===
Roosevelt was homeschooled. Biographer [[H. W. Brands]] wrote that, "The most obvious drawback...was uneven coverage of...various areas of...knowledge."<ref>{{cite book|author=Brands|title=T.R.: The Last Romantic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7jMw0bwRy8C&pg=PA49|year=1998|page=49|publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-06959-0|access-date=April 15, 2017|archive-date=April 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415214921/https://books.google.com/books?id=J7jMw0bwRy8C&pg=PA49|url-status=live}}</ref> He was solid in geography and bright in history, biology, French, and German; however, he struggled in mathematics and the classical languages.

In September 1876, he entered [[Harvard College]]. His father instructed him to, "take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies."<ref>{{cite book|first=Edward P.|last=Kohn|title=Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EcZWAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT26|year=2013|page=26|publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-06975-0|access-date=April 15, 2017|archive-date=April 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415213639/https://books.google.com/books?id=EcZWAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT26|url-status=live}}</ref> His father's sudden death in 1878 devastated Roosevelt.{{Sfn|Miller|1992|pp=80–82}} He inherited $60,000 (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|60,000|1878|r=-4}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}), enough on which he could live comfortably for the rest of his life.<ref name=NYT14>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/07/18/1878-theodore-roosevelt-inherits-a-fortune/|title=First Glimpses: 1878: Theodore Roosevelt Inherits a Fortune|date=July 18, 2014|first=Mark|last=Bulik|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222113116/https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/07/18/1878-theodore-roosevelt-inherits-a-fortune/|access-date=December 22, 2020|archive-date=December 22, 2020}}</ref>
[[File:Teddy Roosevelt in sculling gear while an undergraduate at Harvard, circa 1877.jpg|thumb|Theodore Roosevelt as an undergraduate at [[Harvard University]] {{Circa|1877}}]]
His father, a devout [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]], regularly led the family in prayers. Young adult Theodore emulated him by teaching Sunday School for more than three years at [[Christ Church (Cambridge, Massachusetts)|Christ Church]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] while at Harvard. When the minister at Christ Church, which was Episcopal, insisted he become an Episcopalian to continue teaching, Roosevelt declined, and began teaching a mission class in a poor section of Cambridge.<ref>{{cite book |last=McCullough |first=David |author-link=David McCullough |title=[[Mornings on Horseback]]: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1982 |isbn=978-0-6714-4754-0 }}</ref> 

Roosevelt did well in science, philosophy, and rhetoric courses but struggled in Latin and Greek. He studied biology intently and was already an accomplished naturalist and a published [[Ornithology|ornithologist]]. He read prodigiously with an almost photographic memory.{{Sfn|Brands|1997|p=62}} Roosevelt participated in rowing and [[Harvard Boxing Club|boxing]], and was a member of the [[Alpha Delta Phi]] literary society, the [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity, and the prestigious [[Porcellian Club]]. In 1880, Roosevelt graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] (22nd of 177) with an [[Bachelors of Arts|A.B.]] ''[[magna cum laude]]''. [[Henry F. Pringle]] wrote:
{{blockquote|Roosevelt, attempting to analyze his college career and weigh the benefits he had received, felt that he had obtained little from Harvard. He had been depressed by the formalistic treatment of many subjects, by the rigidity, the attention to minutiae that were important in themselves, but which somehow were never linked up with the whole.{{sfn|Pringle|1931|p=27}}}}

Roosevelt gave up his plan of studying natural science and attended [[Columbia Law School]], moving back into his family's home in New York. Although Roosevelt was an able student, he found law to be irrational.{{Sfn|Brands|1997|pp=110–112, 123–133. quote p. 126}} Determined to enter politics, Roosevelt began attending meetings at Morton Hall, the headquarters of New York's 21st District Republican Association. Though Roosevelt's father had been a prominent member of the [[History of the Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], Roosevelt made an unorthodox career choice for someone of his class, as most of Roosevelt's peers refrained from becoming too closely involved in politics. Roosevelt found allies in the local Republican Party and defeated a Republican state assemblyman tied to the political machine of Senator [[Roscoe Conkling]] closely. After his election victory, Roosevelt dropped out of law school, later saying, "I intended to be one of the governing class."{{Sfn|Brands|1997|pp=110–112, 123–133. quote p. 126}}