Lincoln has less than a year of formal schooling and rises up to become president.
The Conservatives' plans to shake up schooling, presented by Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary, are perhaps the most innovative of their policies.
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Having walked around it about seven or eight times, he finally turned to me and told me that when he was 23 he'd been forced by his dad to go through schooling, college and he ended up becoming a lawyer.
It's a fresh and dashing face, and when he speaks it's with a strong British accent, picked up during his years of schooling in the U.K., from boarding school at Harrow through Oxford University.
Christy has been home-schooling the sixth-grader after she had problems keeping up with assignments.
Branson would not be who he is today if he decided to play it safe and put up with the grueling and useless days of schooling.
Ringing the alarm on the stagnating progress towards reaching universal primary education, the United Nations' Special Envoy for Global Education Mr Gordon Brown, urged that every failing country should draw up an action plan to address obstacles to schooling, from child labour and early marriage to poor sanitation and lack of facilities in rural areas, which the international community should come into support.
For parents who want their children to grow up relatively unexposed to doubt, Darwin or indecent lunchroom chatter, home-schooling offers hope.
Through marriage and schooling (American Protestant mission schools creating converts), the Maalouf family was thoroughly mixed up, and mostly was happy with this.
The periodic flare up of the question of how many Team GB medal winners benefited from private schooling suggests an under-confidence about whether this is really a meritocracy.
As a child growing up in a poor region of southern Algeria, Abou Zeid had little formal schooling, but his intimate knowledge of the border with Libya made him an expert smuggler.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a good post up on reading-for-pleasure vs. forced-reading in the context of schooling and public education.
Up to his final days, he stayed active on behalf of choice in primary and secondary schooling in the U.S. as a means of rescuing millions from poverty.
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