Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), among the Founding Fathers of the United States, stands as a leading intellectual figure of the American Enlightenment whose contributions extended significantly to the educational philosophy. For Franklin, education was not a privilege reserved for the elite, but a universal process intended to make knowledge the common property of society. This article analyzes Franklin’s thought on universal education, thereby clarifying the enduring educational significance of his thought and contributing to the study of the world philosophy of education in Vietnam. The study is grounded in the methodological framework of dialectical materialism and adopts a combination of complementary research methods, including deduction and induction, analysis and synthesis, classification and systematization, comparative analysis, as well as historical-logical and system-structural approach.