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This moving about made his schooling erratic: he did have several years of scholl but did not go to England or to the College of William and Mary to finish his education as might be expected of a young man of his class.
His meager schooling showed that he had a good head for math and logic, but by anyone’s standards, he was a terrible speller. Some ofhis creative spellings are: blew for blue, lye for lie, oyl for oil. Historians sometimes excuse him on the grounds that he was using oldfashioned spellings, but contemporaries like Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin used our spellings of these words.
The fact that Washington, a grade-school dropout, had the logical, mathematical, and writing ability that he did says something about the schools of the time and the amount of decorum and diligence expected in the Washington home.
Oldest Child
Young George’s position as the oldest of his mother’s six children weighed heavily on him after his father died. Before signing on as a surveryor’s apprentice at the age of 16, he hatched a scheme to work on a British man-o-war and went so far as to obtain a midshipman's commission and to have his baggage put on board. But last-minute pleading by his mother and her refusal to approve this scheme kept him from embarking on a career in the British navy.
Washington's relationship with his mother had its ups and downs. While there is no doubt that there was a very strong bond between the two, she saw him all her life as a child.
When he was suffering terrible deprivations as commander of the Revolutionary Army at Valley Forge she wondered in letters to her other children why he did these things to worry her.
After the patriots’ victory, when her son was the most famous and beloved man in America and known throughout the civilized world, she said to Lafayette: “I’m not surprised at what George has done: he was always a good boy."
Even though the cherry tree story has never been proven, it appears that young
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