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

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

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 at Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School, a state grammar school, then the University of Oxford ( graduating with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics ) and INSEAD, Hague was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1989.

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

Educated at West Nottingham Academy, he spent several years in the work force, first as a store clerk, then as a public school teacher.

Educated at first by his mother, George Grote was sent to Sevenoaks grammar school ( 1800 – 1804 ) and afterwards to Charterhouse School ( 1804 – 1810 ), where he studied under Dr Raine in company with Connop Thirlwall, George and Horace Waddington and Henry Havelock.

Educated first at Dundee Grammar School and afterwards at the Royal High School and University of Edinburgh, at the age of seventeen he joined the Duke of Montrose East Indiaman as a midshipman.

While Terry Pratchett's first Discworld book for children, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents had swearing translated to rat language, in this book it is in the dialect of the Nac Mac Feegle which is taken from Scots and Scottish Gaelic.

Educated at University College School, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1870, became a scholar and first Smith's Prizeman, and gained his BA in 1874 as second Wrangler.

Educated in Toronto public schools, his first job was at the age of 14 as an assistant to his carpenter father.

Educated and first published in Germany, he married Western European influences to purely Georgian thematic to produce his best works, such as The Right Hand of the Grand Master and David the Builder.

Educated at St. Mary's ( now Hill House School, Doncaster ), Ackworth School ( an independent boarding school ) and Danum Grammar School for Girls ( now called Danum Academy ) on Danum Road and then reading for a BA in History at the University of Hull in 1979, Winterton first worked as John Prescott's Constituency Personal Assistant from 1980 until 1986, and then Parliamentary Officers, first for Southwark Council for two years until 1988 and then for a further two for the Royal College of Nursing until 1990.

Educated at Trinity College, Kandy, he captained the college first eleven cricket team in 1950 while also competing in the college athletic and rugby teams.

Educated at first at Eisenberg, he proceeded to the nearby University of Jena, where he studied philosophy under professors Friedrich W. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel and Johann Gottlieb Fichte and became privatdozent in 1802.

Educated at Boston College, graduating in 1932, he gained his first radio job in his hometown, at Boston's WLOE.

Educated at Durban High School, he counted literature and the outdoor life among his first loves.

Educated at Bedford School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he was elected into a Fellowship there in 1962 upon obtaining a double-starred first in History, but immediately gained a teaching Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he remained until moving to the University of London in 2008.

Educated at Mbooni Primary School and Machakos High School before joining University of Dar es Salaam in 1969 graduating with a First Class Honors ’ Degree in Law — the first in the East African region.

Educated first at Westminster School, Doll originally then intended ( against the wishes of his parents that he become a doctor like his father ) to study mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge.

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 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 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 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 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 Syldavians are shown speaking Tintin's language ( French in the original ).

Educated at the French and Papal courts, he inherited the Marquisate from his father in 1519, initially under the regency of his mother and his uncles Sigismondo and Giovanni Gonzaga.

Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French language and literature in the gymnasium at Basel ; and throughout his life he was as much a critic as a theologian.

Educated in the traditions of the Seven Years ' War, he had by degrees, as his experience widened, divested his mind of antiquated forms of war, and realised that only a " national " army and a policy of fighting decisive battles could give an adequate response to the political and strategic situation brought about by the French Revolution.

Educated by the brothers Garsevanishvili and a Roman Catholic mission, he was fluent in six foreign languages, particularly in Greek, Latin, French, Turkish, Russian and Armenian.

Educated at Gunnersbury Boys ' Grammar School in West London, he won a scholarship to study Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specializing in French literature and Spanish poetry.

Educated at the elite École Normale Supérieure ( graduated 1947 ) and the École nationale d ' administration, Raimond served in a variety of civil service positions with the French government, in 1967 he became a member of the staff of Maurice Couve de Murville, at the time the French Foreign Minister, and later to Louis de Guiringaud in 1978.

Educated people there tend to speak a very formal sort of French which may sound a bit old-fashioned and conservative to European and North American French speakers.

Educated at Dartmouth College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, French interned for the United Nations in the Ivory Coast and in Geneva at the UN Development Program and the UN Institute for Disarmament Research and worked briefly for Ashoka before joining Worldwatch in 1987.

Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and at the French School at Athens, he received his doctorate in literature in 1868.

Educated through the Yugoslav Royal Army academies, General Jovanović was one of the best-educated generals among the partisan forces in Yugoslavia, speaking French, Russian and English.

Educated islanders also know English or French, which are taught in schools.

Educated at Columbia University, Bessie became initially known for his translations of avant-garde French literature,

Educated at the court of France, he served first in the French army and then in that of Sweden.

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.