From the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King's School, Grantham. By October 1659, he was removed from school, and went to Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, where his mother, widow for the second time, attempted to make a farmer of him. He hated farming. Henry Stokes, Master at the King's School, persuaded his mother to send him back to school so that he might complete his education. Motivated partly by a desire for revenge against a schoolyard bully, he became an amazing student. In June 1661 he left Woolsthorpe for Cambridge University and by 1665 took his bachelor's degree at Cambridge without honors or distinction.
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