Literacy requires the memorization of a great many characters: Educated Chinese know about 4, 000 ; educated Japanese know about half that many.

Educated principally in Italy, he gained some experience of warfare during the campaign of his paternal uncle Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor against France in 1544, and also during the War of the league of Schmalkalden, and soon began to take part in imperial business.

Educated in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the University Philosophical Society John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at Heatherley's Art School.

Educated at the University of Toronto, he began playing with jazz guitarist Tisziji Muñoz, performing in bands around the bars there, where he found an interest in musicals, and completed his studies, with a B. A.

Educated at Paris and Geneva, he began his life-work in 1825 as founder and pastor of a Protestant church in Naples, moving to Lyon in 1827.

Educated in public schools he began his career in 1895 as an office boy at the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in Springfield.

Educated in Haddington and Selkirk, he began his military career in 1736 in the 3rd Scots Regiment in Dutch service.

Educated at the Merchant Taylors ' School, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Carr began his career as a diplomat in 1916.

Educated at the Slade School of Art 1986-1990, he began his writing career with two operas, The Swiss Admiral's Trousers ( 1986 ) and The Maginot Line ( 1987 ) which were staged at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith respectively.

Educated at Oxford, he soon began to teach in the university.

Educated at Charterhouse School, and an Exhibitioner in History at Magdalene College, Cambridge, he began writing about film in 1960.

Educated at George Watson's College, he began a legal apprenticeship in 1845, and briefly worked for his father's firm.

Educated at Eton College, he began his racing career in his own Lotus 7, although these early efforts were mostly marked by long periods pointing in the wrong direction following spins.

Educated at Marlborough, Young began rock climbing shortly before his first term at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Classics and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse two years running.

Educated at Eton, Snow was exempted from the National Service on account of a sports injury and began his travels at age 22.

Educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto, Boyd began his career in 1860 when he was articled to David Breakenridge Read.

Educated at Bury Grammar School, Allan spent nine years working in theatre as a stage manager before he began broadcasting on the offshore station Radio 390 in 1966.

Educated at the Perth Academy, he began studying law, but abandoned it for art.

Educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels ( 1859-1868 ), van der Stappen's contribution to the Brussels Salon was " The Faun's Toilet " of 1869, and thereafter he began to produce work of a high and novel order in every class of sculpture, and soon, along with Paul de Vigne, became recognized as the leader of the section of the new Belgian school of sculpture which infused models derived from Greek and Roman models and the art of the Italian Renaissance with naturalistic detail and fleeting action.

Educated at the California State University, Long Beach, she began her career in 1974 by publishing comics in the influential all-female Wimmen's Comix anthologies and in other ' 70s underground comix, and created the strip Feminist Funnies.

Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French.

Educated in Lahore, Caveeshar began his public career in 1913, when he launched the English-language newspaper Sikh Review.

Educated at Galt Grammar School and Caradoc Academy, he first began the study of law but instead, in 1862, entered the trade of journalism.

Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where a lifelong friendship with W. E. Gladstone began, his first appointment was to a clerkship in the board of control, where he remained from 1832 to 1835.

Educated at King Charles I School, Davies began his career playing for Worcestershire in 2001, playing a number of games in second eleven cricket and in the ECB 38-County Cup, and played one C & G Trophy match in each of the following two seasons.

Educated, Hellenizing Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, who were wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus, with a distinct origin.

Educated in Saxe-Altenburg, Germany, Harrison returned to Chicago to help his brother run the Chicago Times, which their father bought in 1891.

Educated and influential members of the large Greek diaspora, such as Adamantios Korais and Anthimos Gazis, tried to transmit these ideas back to the Greeks, with the double aim of raising their educational level and simultaneously strengthening their national identity.

( Educated Englishmen were noted for their learning, industry, and honesty and " would also be the last persons to quarrel with their bread and butter.

On their way back they are diverted by the magic of Mombi ( whom Jinjur recruited to help her apprehend them ), joined by the Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated Wogglebug, and aided by the Field Mice and their queen.

Educated people from all parts of France were to be selected to attend the school an to subsequently return to found an école normale in their department for the education of primary schools teachers.

Educated Germans such as Joseph Wedemeyer, Oswald Ottendorfer and Friedrich Sorge were important players in the creation and growth of trade unions, and many Germans and their Vereine ( German-American clubs ) were also often politically active.

Educated women with careers who wanted to live with other women were allowed a measure of social acceptance and freedom to arrange their own lives.

According to the authors Bennett, Finn, and Cribb of The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade, the first three to five years of an individual ’ s life can be the most critical period of their education.

Educated at Brighton College and the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, in 1924 he was an oxygen officer on the Everest expedition in which George Mallory and Andrew Irvine famously perished during their summit attempt.

Educated at Glasgow High School, he went on to study at the city's university, where he was awarded their medal in logic and moral philosophy, and achieved his MA.

Educated in Borden, Orchard went on to study arts and science and then law at the University of Saskatchewan in nearby Saskatoon, although he did not graduate.

Educated at Plymouth College and Cambridge University, he played lock for England B aged 21 and represented Cambridge in the 1979 Varsity Match, but did not make an impact until joining Harlequins and the Police in 1988.

Educated at the University of Cambridge, he did not take a degree, and proceeded to the Middle Temple in 1538 to study law.

Educated pagans, seeing the sub-literary quality of the Christian scriptures, posed a problem for Christian apologists: why did the Holy Ghost write so badly?

Educated at Princeton University, where he did his Ph. D. in sociology in 1975, he subsequently taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a research associate with the Center for South East Asian Studies.