Even though Grant was not a good student, he was still interested in education. Which sentence from the passage best supports this inference?
Young Ulysses Grant
Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, in April 1822. After his birth, the family settled in Georgetown, Ohio. Ulysses’s father was a farmer and leather manufacturer. Young Ulysses did not like the leather business. He liked doing farm work. When he was only seven years old, he hauled all the wood that was needed in the home and at the leather factory from a forest, a mile from the village. He was too small to load and unload the wood, so men did that for him.
From the age of eleven to seventeen, according to his personal memories, he ploughed the soil, nurtured the growing corn and potatoes, and sawed firewood for his father's store. He did any other work that would naturally fall to the lot of a farmer's boy. He had his fun times too, including fishing, swimming in the creek near his home, skating in winter, and driving about the countryside in the winter and summer.
Young Grant liked horses and became a skillful rider. One day when he was at a circus, the manager offered a silver dollar to anybody who could ride a certain mule around the ring. Several people, one after another, mounted the animal only to be thrown over its head. Young Ulysses was among those who offered to ride. Like the others, he was unsuccessful. Then pulling off his coat, he got on the animal again. Putting his legs firmly around the mule's body and seizing him by the tail, Ulysses rode triumphantly around the ring.
Although he cared little for study, his father wished to give him all the advantages of a good education. He secured an appointment for Ulysses at West Point. This was indeed a rare opportunity for thorough training in scholarship. He had a special talent for mathematics, and he became an expert horseman, but with these exceptions, he took little interest in the training he received at this famous military school.
After graduation, he wished to leave the army and become an instructor in mathematics at West Point. But as the Mexican War broke out about that time he entered active service. Soon he gave striking evidence of that fearless bravery for which he was to become so noted on the battlefields of the Civil War.
Shortly after the close of the war Grant was married. Six years later he resigned from the army and went with his family to live on a farm near St. Louis. Although he worked hard, he found it uphill work to support his family. He eventually gave up farming. He tried the real estate business but without success. At last, his father offered him a place in his leather and hardware store, where Grant worked as a clerk until the outbreak of the Civil War.
adapted from a history by Wilbur F. Gordy
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The sentence from the passage that best supports the inference that Grant was interested in education, despite not being a good student, is:
"Although he cared little for study, his father wished to give him all the advantages of a good education."
This sentence indicates that while Grant himself may not have been passionate about studying, there was still an emphasis on the value of education from his father, which suggests that Grant had some interest in education as a concept.
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