Over time, he was successful enough to start his own dealership and was making amends to get a formal education.
At the time, society restricted the best educational facilities to white families, making it hard for black children in north Louisiana to get a formal education.
These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
You can be a college graduate with a white collar job, or a skilled factory worker with no formal education, or a technical type with an education somewhere in the middle.
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So I would hate to think people feel they are counted out of entrepreneurship because of a lack of formal education.
This means that out of the 350 successful entrepreneurs, a mere 50 had formal business education.
A. Zong has little formal education and has come up the hard way.
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Formal education was a lower priority for Donald himself, who enrolled in five schools in 15 years before earning his undergraduate business degree from Century College in Albuquerque.
He started out as a peasant himself, ending his formal education at 14.
This progression signals a growing ability to cope with formal education, not just in algebra but also in the humanities.
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He had some formal education, including a course in literature at New York University, but like many in his circle, he was mostly self-taught.
Again, there is a clear hierarchy to development, and formal education and training is the first step.
But if the goal is to become rich, years of formal education may simply be a waste of time.
Investment takes many forms, not just formal education, but buying a house in a neighborhood with the best schools, paying for informal and extra-curricular tutoring, classes, cram-schools, camps, foreign travel, etc.
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Jomtien made a distinction between early childhood development and formal preschool education, and this distinction is relevant to the United States.
There is a formal, written contract with the Abu Dhabi Education Council, but INSEAD declined to provide a copy, citing a confidentiality agreement.
If a child is refused a place at a school by a local education authority or school governing body, parents do have a right to a formal appeals procedure, usually established by the authority.
What formal education he got was at a Catholic school, which he attended until he was 14 to please his bourgeois grandparents: it left him with a love of well-written French and a loathing of organised religion.
Promote and use OER to widen access to education at all levels, both formal and non-formal, in a perspective of lifelong learning, thus contributing to social inclusion, gender equity and special needs education.
Mr. Biswas is a 23-year-old orphan with a wife, a 3-year-old daughter and no formal education.
With no formal education, he busied himself as a sharecropper and day-labourer, working on railways and in mines until the Depression hit.
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Recognising the value of the free time that most prisoners have in prison, many correctional institutions offer skills and vocational training as well as formal and non-formal education programmes as complimentary parts of a sentence.
Participants who pass this test are awarded high school graduation certificates by the Department of Education, which enable them to continue to higher education or seek formal employment at a similar level to formal school graduates.
Though Eisner has no background in education, and not much of a formal philosophy, he understands that students in Bel-Air are taught how to internalize literate thinking the ability to effectively communicate and bargain, and to extrapolate from particulars to universals from an early age.
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Tonga was the first country in the Pacific to formally launch ESD in 2007 and a number of ESD activities have been happening in the formal education sector.
But beyond a set of enthusiastic early adopters, the use of technology in formal education remained largely stalled.
Located in a very disadvantaged area at the border of Bou Hlel district, it has 157 pupils and has lead for a year, successful activities in the field of non-formal citizenship education.
It gave me the confidence to work as a middle school science teacher in a Mexican barrio in San Diego, California even though I had no formal education training or experience with the culture.
In the absence of any formal evidence on whether business school education helps or hinders becoming a successful entrepreneur, I am inclined to rely on their judgement: business school education helps, if you want to become a successful entrepreneur.
Military service had a neutral effect on socioeconomic attainment, and therefore did not substitute for additional formal education among these veteran enlisted men.
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