He had achieved so much despite his lack of a formal education.

尽管父亲没有受过正规的教育，但他还是取得了很大的成就。

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I didn't have a formal education. I came from no influence, no money.

每个人都对我说不，我没受过正规的教育，也没什么影响力，更没钱。

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It had never mattered much to her that she had not had a formal education.

她未受过正规教育，这对她来说从来没有多大关系。

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Over time, he was successful enough to start his own dealership and was making amends to get a formal education.

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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.

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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.

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