C. Lincoln uses sarcasm to describe the quality of the schools where he grew up.
Explanation:
In his narration of his early life, Abraham Lincoln describes the new home that his family had moved to. It was a wild region, living along with animals of the woods. When he said that "<em>There were some schools, so called</em>", he is sarcastically commenting on the quality of school there. The only requirement of the teachers being "r<em>eadin, writin, and cipherin</em>", he recalls how the education system was like where he grew up.
