DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

Educated at Narkover, a school specializing in card-playing, horse-racing and bribery.

Educated as a lawyer, and holding lucrative positions as secretary and counsellor, he seemed, indeed, at one time to have settled down to the practice of law, but following an unexpected summons to Venice, after an absence of several years, he changed his career, and thenceforth he devoted himself to writing plays and managing theatres.

Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to Sir Charles Blicke ( 1745 – 1815 ), a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Educated first at home, then spending four years of secondary school in Bienne, he completed his elementary studies in Lausanne.

Educated at the Roman College run by the Jesuits in Rome, he went to the University of Bologna to get degrees in canon and Roman law, June 1575.

Educated first by the celebrated school of St. Maarten in Groningen, he matriculated at the universities of Erfurt ( BA in 1458 ) and Louvain ( MA in 1465 ), where he won renown for the purity of his Latin and his skill in disputation.

Educated at Rugby and the University of Edinburgh, in 1754 he was sent to Leipzig University to study civil law, with a view to his proceeding to a career as an advocate.

Educated at Parramatta High School, Benaud made his first grade debut for Cumberland at age 16, primarily as a batsman.

Educated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Jardine obtained a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1802.

Educated in Latin and Aristotelian physics at the University of Oxford, Wren was a notable astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist, as well as an architect.

Educated first at a Brighton preparatory school and then, from the age of thirteen, as a dayboy at the prestigious Tonbridge School, his academic abilities were noted from an early age.

Educated from 1903 at St Joseph's Christian Brothers School in Fairview, North Dublin, he moved to the O ' Connell School in north Dublin for senior classes, and then attended University College Dublin and graduated with a degree in modern languages and law.

Educated privately, she studied painting in France at the Académie Julian, one of the few establishments that accepted female students.

Educated at Heidelberg and Berlin, he was from 1812 to 1827 a schoolmaster in Berlin, and in 1827 became professor of Latin literature at the University of Berlin.

Educated in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin, he obtained his doctorate in 1907 at Freiburg.

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 Leeds Grammar School, he went on to study English Literature at the University of Leeds.

Educated as a sociologist, he was a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Universidade de São Paulo.

Educated at the City of London School, he obtained a studentship at King's College London, and in 1856 a scholarship at Queens ' College, Cambridge where he graduated as fifth wrangler in 1859, and was immediately elected fellow of his college.

Educated at the original Trinity College School in Weston Ontario, as a teenager William Osler's aim was to follow his father into the Anglican ministry and to that end he entered Trinity College, Toronto ( now a constituent college of the University of Toronto ) in the autumn of 1867.

Educated at St Dominic's High School, she also spent some time when younger with the Poor Clares, Queen's University Belfast ( from which she graduated in 1973 ), and Trinity College, Dublin.

Educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, he emigrated to Canada in 1980.

Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen Regius Professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility.

Educated at Cheltenham Ladies ' College and St Hilda's College, Oxford ( where she was one of the first students ), she served as a Red Cross nurse during World War I with a voluntary Franco-American hospital.

Educated locally, he won a scholarship to Tunbridge Wells and later attended the High School and Trinity College in Dublin.

Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a zealous Protestant ; as such he found it prudent to flee to France when Mary I ascended the throne of England.

Educated at Berkhamsted Grammar School and at Balliol College, Oxford, he first practised journalism in London.

Educated at Belvedere College from the age of six, O ' Reilly was known for sporting proficiency in soccer, cricket and tennis and rugby union.

Educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, he was primarily interested in poetry and literature, played the lead in school theatricals and was regarded as the best speaker in the school's debating society.

Educated at Clifton College, he went to work at a locomotive works in Manchester and later to a Tyneside firm where he became interested in electrical work.

Educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected a fellow of Queen's College in 1862.

Educated at Eton and at Brasenose College, Oxford, his university career was brilliant.

Educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, Montagu spent some time in travelling, initially going on the Grand Tour round Continental Europe before visiting the more unusual destinations of Greece, Turkey and Egypt which were then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Educated first at the French College in Berlin, then at Neuchâtel, where his father had returned, Du Bois-Reymond entered in 1836 the University of Berlin.

The Death of Rats has appeared in the animated Soul Music and in the radio play of The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, but has not been given a voice credit for either.

Educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat, Heinze received violin lessons at an early age, under the guidance of Walter Gude ( 1904 – 12 ) in Ballarat and at the University of Melbourne under Franklin Peterson before being awarded the ( Sir William ) Clarke Scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London ( 1913 ).

Educated at Cambridge University ( honours degree and doctorate ), he spent two years at the Royal College of Music studying composition with Herbert Howells and conducting with Sir Adrian Boult.

Several foundlings appear in Terry Pratchett's Discworld: most notably Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson ( found as a toddler among the ruins of a caravan party attacked by bandits, surrounded by the bodies of the adults ; Carrot was adopted and raised by the dwarfs who discovered him, and was surprised to learn at age 16-and 6ft 6in tall-that he was not a dwarf ; mounting evidence suggests that Carrot is the scion of the deposed Ankh-Morpork royal family, but he himself has suppressed this as much as possible, considering the role of police captain to be a preferable one in which to safeguard his city and keep order ), also Tomjohn ( rightful heir to the throne of Lancre, rescued from his father's killer by loyal servants, entrusted to the local witches and given to travelling actors to raise ; Tomjohn eventually returns to the kingdom, but does not wish to rule it, preferring to remain an actor ) and Keith ( The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents-ironically, Malicia, obsessed with fairytales, is certain that this makes him likely to be a prince, but Keith explains that it is common in the city to abandon babies outside the Guilds where they are likely to receive care and training in a trade ).

Educated in France and Vietnam, he eventually became a supporter of Ho Chi Minh and joined the Indochinese communist movement.

Educated at the Lycée Condorcet, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Ecole des Sciences Politiques, he had a brilliant career as a scholar, and was called to the Parisian bar, where he practised from 1881 to 1886, but eventually devoted himself to the study of numismatics.

Educated at northern Quebec mission schools, Adams became an electrician, and eventually owned a number of businesses in different industries around Canada.

Educated in Boston, Massachusetts, he spoke English and his native Swedish, and eventually translated some of the plays of August Strindberg.

Educated in France and Germany, Andrew Blayney is famous for his distinguished military career, eventually becoming Colonel, having served the Crown in the West Indies, South America, southern Africa, the Napoleonic Wars as commander of the 89th Foot, popularly known as ' Blayney's Bloodhounds '.

He graduated in chemistry at the American University in Cairo, and organized the Congress of Educated Muslims. Abd al-Qadir wedding photograph, 1934 Initially, he took a post in the settlement department of the British Mandate government, but eventually moved to the Hebron area during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine to lead the struggle against the British.

Educated by a hermit, Galapas, who teaches him to use his psychic powers as well as his earthly gifts, Merlin eventually finds his way to the court of Ambrosius Aurelianus in Brittany.

Educated in St. John's and Collegiate School in Liverpool, England, Prowse went to Spain to learn the family business before he returned to Newfoundland where he studied law and articled with Bryan Robinson and eventually was called to the bar in 1858.