Some of the notebooks George Washington kept as a young man are san in (36) . They show that he was learning Latin, was very interested in the basics of good behavior in society, and was reading English (37) . At school he seemed only to have bean interested in (38) . In fact his formal education was (39) brief for a gentleman, and incomplete. For unlike other young Virginian gentlemen of that day, he did not go to the College of William and Mary in the Virginian (40) of Williamsburg. In terms of formal (41) then, Washington (42) sharply with some other early American Presidents such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In later years, Washington probably regretted his lack of (43) training. (44) ,or on any subject that had not to do with everyday, practical matters. (45) , he did not visit the country he admired so much. (46) .