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What sorts of traditional schooling does your pup have?
Both Erik and Jack have studied at university, and had full schooling before that.
Erik is now a senior research fellow (or a title similar to such) at Culver.
Jack, on the other hand, is now a member of the SAS, in the Australian Army.
Erik is now a senior research fellow (or a title similar to such) at Culver.
Jack, on the other hand, is now a member of the SAS, in the Australian Army.
Atton went (well, he skipped) school during the years he was at the orphanage. Before that, he didn't have any traditional education. In all honesty, though, the majority of his education probably comes from various militaries - the Republic military taught him piloting, engineering, marksmanship, basic survival training and basic hand-to-hand combat, among other things; the Sith military taught him advanced Echani hand-to-hand combat, swordfighting, tracking and stealth, forming mental walls, and probably a lot more.
Priest!Leo was canonically taught almost completely by his father and brother, but like all knights-in-training, he would've gone to a camp for about a month. Like everyone there, his identity would've been kept under wraps (to avoid anyone making judgements based on his family name - this is common issue in his universe), with him assuming a colour instead (his brother, we know, was Purple, and the central character of his series was White). There he would've learned chess, swordfighting, teamwork, and various meditation exercises.
Inventor!Leo is a student at Verrocchio's workshop, learning art. He's very likely the top student, although he may very likely be tied with Lisa on that point. He also knows how to read and write and stuff like that - but he knew that before going to the workshop.
Teddy and Seamus were both educated at Hogwarts, although Seamus' final year probably doesn't really count as a traditional education, all things considered.
Priest!Leo was canonically taught almost completely by his father and brother, but like all knights-in-training, he would've gone to a camp for about a month. Like everyone there, his identity would've been kept under wraps (to avoid anyone making judgements based on his family name - this is common issue in his universe), with him assuming a colour instead (his brother, we know, was Purple, and the central character of his series was White). There he would've learned chess, swordfighting, teamwork, and various meditation exercises.
Inventor!Leo is a student at Verrocchio's workshop, learning art. He's very likely the top student, although he may very likely be tied with Lisa on that point. He also knows how to read and write and stuff like that - but he knew that before going to the workshop.
Teddy and Seamus were both educated at Hogwarts, although Seamus' final year probably doesn't really count as a traditional education, all things considered.
Cata and Sam: Full members of the Assassins' Guild.
Claudia: One semester of college before she couldn't take it anymore. She's recently reached the bit of canon where she re-applies; this time around she'll be doing online classes as she has time, which I think will go better for her. (Partly because online lends just enough anonymity that she'll be more comfortable, partly because she is not leaving the Warehouse for as long as it'd take to do on-campus work.)
Apollo: ...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Imp: Llamedos has a fairly regularized system of bard-learnin', I think, but I've never been drawn to poke at it before. But he had to learn to play the harp sometime.
Regulus: Still attending Hogwarts, but he'll finish with a good few NEWTs to his name.
Red: I don't think the Enchanted Forest rolls like that, at least not for the lower class/what middle class there is.
Ruby: Finished high school, but even if Storybrooke had a university she wouldn't have enrolled. She doesn't think she's smart enough for it. (She'd be a hell of a business major, though.)
Rebecca, because I feel like throwing her in: It's canon, per her obituary, that she has a master's degree. My headcanon is that she was working on it when she had her first brush with Warehouse life and actually turned down the job at first so she could finish her thesis; as she saw it, if she left with the work half-done she'd never get the chance to go back and do it again.
Claudia: One semester of college before she couldn't take it anymore. She's recently reached the bit of canon where she re-applies; this time around she'll be doing online classes as she has time, which I think will go better for her. (Partly because online lends just enough anonymity that she'll be more comfortable, partly because she is not leaving the Warehouse for as long as it'd take to do on-campus work.)
Apollo: ...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Imp: Llamedos has a fairly regularized system of bard-learnin', I think, but I've never been drawn to poke at it before. But he had to learn to play the harp sometime.
Regulus: Still attending Hogwarts, but he'll finish with a good few NEWTs to his name.
Red: I don't think the Enchanted Forest rolls like that, at least not for the lower class/what middle class there is.
Ruby: Finished high school, but even if Storybrooke had a university she wouldn't have enrolled. She doesn't think she's smart enough for it. (She'd be a hell of a business major, though.)
Rebecca, because I feel like throwing her in: It's canon, per her obituary, that she has a master's degree. My headcanon is that she was working on it when she had her first brush with Warehouse life and actually turned down the job at first so she could finish her thesis; as she saw it, if she left with the work half-done she'd never get the chance to go back and do it again.
Not sure if the Academy counts. Before that, in Mainframe, Enzo definitely attended school, in that it's been mentioned in canon, but there have been no real details of what sprite elementary school is like. All we know is he's had teachers named Mr. Dithers and Miss Brodie (the latter being a rather adorable Scottish binome), and that Dot made him take an Ancient Languages class as an extracurricular.
Castiel: Not so much.
Parker Lee: Pretty standard. Graduated from Hearst College with a double major in Spanish and Psychology.
Luna Lovegood: Currently a fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Mary Bennet: Educated at home by her mother (and probably Jane). She tries to teach herself, though, and has been taken on as a student in Milliways by Kate Barlow.
Dumbledore: Graduated from Hogwarts, and then probably furthered his education by working with individual mentors such as Nicholas Flamel.
John Winchester: Graduated from high school, and probably has some community college or trade school under his belt.
Parker Lee: Pretty standard. Graduated from Hearst College with a double major in Spanish and Psychology.
Luna Lovegood: Currently a fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Mary Bennet: Educated at home by her mother (and probably Jane). She tries to teach herself, though, and has been taken on as a student in Milliways by Kate Barlow.
Dumbledore: Graduated from Hogwarts, and then probably furthered his education by working with individual mentors such as Nicholas Flamel.
John Winchester: Graduated from high school, and probably has some community college or trade school under his belt.
Ray has doctorates in Parapsychology and Electrical Engineering from Columbia and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Miskatonic. Also about forty years of study in the Alchemy Department of the University of Melcene, but he never got a piece of paper for it because he was basically working as Senji's assistant and lost track of time.
Gordon has a doctorate in theoretical physics from MIT and did some of his post-doc work at Innsbruck.
Ellen had what amounted to a one-room schoolhouse education through the age of sixteen, and then was reshuffled into a workplace training program for the Vault 101 chaplaincy.
Adrian Shephard finished high school.
Medic got an MD at a respectable school that suffered a mysterious fire in its records department not long after granting him his papers. This is what happens when two rivals try to ruin each others' professional careers at the same time without realizing it.
Arcade Gannon was homeschooled growing up, but got his medical education from a school run by the Followers of the Apocalypse, which was recognized as an educational institution by the New California Republic.
Varric had tutors.
Mordin had a salarian education. Under ordinary circumstances this would have meant getting his doctorates in varying fields early enough to have university tenure by age 16, but Mordin's a damn genius even by salarian standards, so I'm guessing he had everything nailed down and was doing government scientific work by the age of twelve. (NB: salarians generally live to age forty at most. Mordin is thirty-five or so by the time you meet him. This is not a race that believes in wasting time.)
And Belar and Thalestris don't have schooling as we know it.
Gordon has a doctorate in theoretical physics from MIT and did some of his post-doc work at Innsbruck.
Ellen had what amounted to a one-room schoolhouse education through the age of sixteen, and then was reshuffled into a workplace training program for the Vault 101 chaplaincy.
Adrian Shephard finished high school.
Medic got an MD at a respectable school that suffered a mysterious fire in its records department not long after granting him his papers. This is what happens when two rivals try to ruin each others' professional careers at the same time without realizing it.
Arcade Gannon was homeschooled growing up, but got his medical education from a school run by the Followers of the Apocalypse, which was recognized as an educational institution by the New California Republic.
Varric had tutors.
Mordin had a salarian education. Under ordinary circumstances this would have meant getting his doctorates in varying fields early enough to have university tenure by age 16, but Mordin's a damn genius even by salarian standards, so I'm guessing he had everything nailed down and was doing government scientific work by the age of twelve. (NB: salarians generally live to age forty at most. Mordin is thirty-five or so by the time you meet him. This is not a race that believes in wasting time.)
And Belar and Thalestris don't have schooling as we know it.
Gibbs has almost none. Maybe some time in very poor classes as a kid, but nothing else.
Knox finished high school and leapt to his newspaper job. He hates that you can't work as a reporter now without at least college, if not J-school.
Cy dropped out of high school after the accident, but he recently got his GED and will be starting as a student at Hudson University this fall.
Howard Stark has a BA in Engineering from Cal Tech, and some credits towards an MBA but odds are he doesn't need to complete it.
CharlieQuestion was asked to remove himself from college after one too many infractions. His education prior to that was inner city terrible. So I think you can say he's self-taught.
Kirk graduated from Starfleet Academy.
Knox finished high school and leapt to his newspaper job. He hates that you can't work as a reporter now without at least college, if not J-school.
Cy dropped out of high school after the accident, but he recently got his GED and will be starting as a student at Hudson University this fall.
Howard Stark has a BA in Engineering from Cal Tech, and some credits towards an MBA but odds are he doesn't need to complete it.
CharlieQuestion was asked to remove himself from college after one too many infractions. His education prior to that was inner city terrible. So I think you can say he's self-taught.
Kirk graduated from Starfleet Academy.
... ... ... ... ... ... ... Um.
Felix is from a vaguely-secret medieval-ish fantasy video-game village. I'd imagine there's something - literacy seems to be universal, for instance - but it doesn't seem to be a major thing. And whatever it was, he did not continue after the age of fifteen.
Kain, as the ward of a king, presumably had some manner of tutors. But his focus was always on getting into the Dragoons rather than anything else.
Fluttershy... hard to say. This is one reason I don't usually work from open canons. Cheerilee's classroom suggests that education is a common and expected thing in Equestria, so presumably Cloudsdale would have had something similar. Whether Fluttershy finished the course before she fell out of Summer Flight Camp, or continued once she went back... who can say?
As for Cranky... we know even less. There doesn't seem to be any sort of overt prejudice against donkeys, but we don't see them in any positions of authority or even visibility - indeed, we've only ever seen Cranky and Matilda, and that in one episode plus a cameo in another. The existence and acceptance (and good-naturedness) of mules suggests that there's no perceived problem with donkey-pony relationships, but I'm getting rather off-track. I have no idea.
Felix is from a vaguely-secret medieval-ish fantasy video-game village. I'd imagine there's something - literacy seems to be universal, for instance - but it doesn't seem to be a major thing. And whatever it was, he did not continue after the age of fifteen.
Kain, as the ward of a king, presumably had some manner of tutors. But his focus was always on getting into the Dragoons rather than anything else.
Fluttershy... hard to say. This is one reason I don't usually work from open canons. Cheerilee's classroom suggests that education is a common and expected thing in Equestria, so presumably Cloudsdale would have had something similar. Whether Fluttershy finished the course before she fell out of Summer Flight Camp, or continued once she went back... who can say?
As for Cranky... we know even less. There doesn't seem to be any sort of overt prejudice against donkeys, but we don't see them in any positions of authority or even visibility - indeed, we've only ever seen Cranky and Matilda, and that in one episode plus a cameo in another. The existence and acceptance (and good-naturedness) of mules suggests that there's no perceived problem with donkey-pony relationships, but I'm getting rather off-track. I have no idea.
Caspian: had a tutor.
Jack: finished high school.
Emma: I assume she finished high school (come on, show, backstory, please?). I would pretty surprised if she had any kind of advanced degree.
Danny: I would guess he went to college, though it's definitely possible that he went straight to (probably Essex County) Police Academy.
Wolfwood: was home-schooled. Sort of.
...does learning how to be an assassin count?
Jack: finished high school.
Emma: I assume she finished high school (come on, show, backstory, please?). I would pretty surprised if she had any kind of advanced degree.
Danny: I would guess he went to college, though it's definitely possible that he went straight to (probably Essex County) Police Academy.
Wolfwood: was home-schooled. Sort of.
...does learning how to be an assassin count?
...Ahahahahaha. God, do any of mine?
River went to normal schools, sort of mostly, but very accelerated; she was taking graduate classes at 14, at least in some subjects. I kind of get the impression she was part of some sort of gifted program that let her and her family sort of pick and choose so she could take some classes here and some classes there. And then, uh, she went to the Academy, which billed itself as untraditional schooling but sort of skipped the "schooling" part in favor of "creating experimental psychic weapon-children."
Trowa has gotten a college degree (the equivalent of a bachelor's degree) by correspondence courses online. That's it for his schooling in any traditional sense. I don't think he's ever been inside a classroom except that time he hung out at an L4 university for research purposes. He was a child soldier; he picked things up on the fly or not at all.
Oh, Regan! Regan has traditional schooling, right through university and a master's degree. Accelerated or advanced to some extent, I suspect, but not half so dramatically as River.
Thor is a prince. He had tutors. He had lots of tutors, and it never crossed anybody's mind to use any other method. So I guess in a way this is traditional? But it's way off from the modern American or European child's experience of school, or even homeschool. In interpersonal dynamics, in a lot of the pedagogy, and certainly in curriculum.
Clare never went to school. She didn't even learn how to read until she became a Claymore trainee. At which point, well, there's a lot of stuff they get trained in, so there may have been some kind of classroom setting.
Uzura is a toddler. And Edel did not go to school, although she spent a lot of time hanging around Gold Crown Academy's campus I guess.
River went to normal schools, sort of mostly, but very accelerated; she was taking graduate classes at 14, at least in some subjects. I kind of get the impression she was part of some sort of gifted program that let her and her family sort of pick and choose so she could take some classes here and some classes there. And then, uh, she went to the Academy, which billed itself as untraditional schooling but sort of skipped the "schooling" part in favor of "creating experimental psychic weapon-children."
Trowa has gotten a college degree (the equivalent of a bachelor's degree) by correspondence courses online. That's it for his schooling in any traditional sense. I don't think he's ever been inside a classroom except that time he hung out at an L4 university for research purposes. He was a child soldier; he picked things up on the fly or not at all.
Oh, Regan! Regan has traditional schooling, right through university and a master's degree. Accelerated or advanced to some extent, I suspect, but not half so dramatically as River.
Thor is a prince. He had tutors. He had lots of tutors, and it never crossed anybody's mind to use any other method. So I guess in a way this is traditional? But it's way off from the modern American or European child's experience of school, or even homeschool. In interpersonal dynamics, in a lot of the pedagogy, and certainly in curriculum.
Clare never went to school. She didn't even learn how to read until she became a Claymore trainee. At which point, well, there's a lot of stuff they get trained in, so there may have been some kind of classroom setting.
Uzura is a toddler. And Edel did not go to school, although she spent a lot of time hanging around Gold Crown Academy's campus I guess.
Ahahaha whut? No.
Eric was trained by his father to become a hunter. And then trained by the Kingsguard to be a soldier, when war came. Other than that, very much no. He can't read, or write. Which will likely be an interesting thing to explore in Bar...
Eric was trained by his father to become a hunter. And then trained by the Kingsguard to be a soldier, when war came. Other than that, very much no. He can't read, or write. Which will likely be an interesting thing to explore in Bar...
Hey, that's two pups who can't. For added fun, Thalestris doesn't even recognize the Roman alphabet as writing, since the only writing she's ever seen is Linear B- which she can't read either.
X: Was trained in weaponry, combat, tactics and strategy in the Facility! She learned a whole bunch of languages, too, as well as some computer science and programming, and she's probably got at least a smattering of relevant math. Any chemistry, biology, and physics she knows are related to calculating firing angles and wind resistance, making and placing explosives, and how best to kill people in a variety of ways. Also she went to high school for like three days. And she probably went to classes at Xavier's Institute for Gifted Children, or whatever it was called at the time. So maybe a couple more months in high school.
Raven: Ahahahaha no schooling except the school of hard knocks.
Dean Winchester: High school, probably a GED (I forget if canon spelled that out).
Sam Tyler: Whatever education a DCI in 2006 would be expected to have, which I should look into because I suspect I am defaulting to the wrong system.
Wonder Woman: Tutors among the Amazons, up to and including her mother the Queen. Because that is how Themyscira rolls.
Flemeth, Michael the Archangel, and Galadan do not have any formal schooling at all. Otherworldly creatures unite! (Though Flemeth may have had mage training if she was ever actually mortal, or pretending to be. Canon contradicts itself sometimes, and contains multitudes.)
Raven: Ahahahaha no schooling except the school of hard knocks.
Dean Winchester: High school, probably a GED (I forget if canon spelled that out).
Sam Tyler: Whatever education a DCI in 2006 would be expected to have, which I should look into because I suspect I am defaulting to the wrong system.
Wonder Woman: Tutors among the Amazons, up to and including her mother the Queen. Because that is how Themyscira rolls.
Flemeth, Michael the Archangel, and Galadan do not have any formal schooling at all. Otherworldly creatures unite! (Though Flemeth may have had mage training if she was ever actually mortal, or pretending to be. Canon contradicts itself sometimes, and contains multitudes.)
Merlin can read and write and was probably schooled at home.
Bilbo Baggins attended whatever school system is available in the Shire. Probably private tutoring, considering his family's status.
John Watson has an MD.
Stuart Dakin is reading history at Oxford.
Ianto Jones graduated from high school. Game-canon says he has a degree (Literature, I think) but that got jossed.
The Green Man has attended various schools over the years when he's wanted to learn something new. Since part of his backstory is that he was a medic during WWII, he probably has a medical degree of some kind, possibly to be an EMT or whatever the equivalent was in those days.
I gave Steve Rogers a degree in fine arts, because why not. (Cooper Union in NYC, thanks to scholarships.)
Peter Burke has an MBA, as I recall.
Bilbo Baggins attended whatever school system is available in the Shire. Probably private tutoring, considering his family's status.
John Watson has an MD.
Stuart Dakin is reading history at Oxford.
Ianto Jones graduated from high school. Game-canon says he has a degree (Literature, I think) but that got jossed.
The Green Man has attended various schools over the years when he's wanted to learn something new. Since part of his backstory is that he was a medic during WWII, he probably has a medical degree of some kind, possibly to be an EMT or whatever the equivalent was in those days.
I gave Steve Rogers a degree in fine arts, because why not. (Cooper Union in NYC, thanks to scholarships.)
Peter Burke has an MBA, as I recall.
Mia was technically homeschooled, but how does that work out when your home IS the school? She essentially had her mother and Ghaleon as private tutors. Or that's what I'm going with, anyway. The way most people in Vane and the Magic Guild treat her, I'd say she never took a class with a group of fellow students before. Her schooling effectively ended when she was sixteen, as this was when the events of Lunar: SSSC occurred. By the epilogue, Lemia is stepping down from leading the Magic Guild and passing it on to Mia.
There doesn't seem to be a school in Tazmily, though that might not mean much since we don't see a school in Onett but Ness's mother still gets calls from the teacher asking why Ness isn't in class. (We should all have a mom as cool as Ness's mom who can cover for us when we're out saving the world.) In any case, Lucas and Claus were either homeschooled or someone's using one of the houses as a one-classroom school to teach the kids of Tazmily.
There doesn't seem to be a school in Tazmily, though that might not mean much since we don't see a school in Onett but Ness's mother still gets calls from the teacher asking why Ness isn't in class. (We should all have a mom as cool as Ness's mom who can cover for us when we're out saving the world.) In any case, Lucas and Claus were either homeschooled or someone's using one of the houses as a one-classroom school to teach the kids of Tazmily.
Shawn: Finished high school, probably with a mediocre GPA. I don't see him as a terrible student, really, but at that point in his life his M.O. was "skate through life with the minimal amount of effort." So yeah.
Brisco: Went to Harvard, as his user name says. Canon details (like his flunking philosophy twice) suggest that he's pretty good at book learning but better at other things.
Fry: .... ahahah. Yeah. High school graduate and repeated college dropout.
Brisco: Went to Harvard, as his user name says. Canon details (like his flunking philosophy twice) suggest that he's pretty good at book learning but better at other things.
Fry: .... ahahah. Yeah. High school graduate and repeated college dropout.
It's hard to say what's "traditional" in Aquabats canon since the show's so silly, but it's safe to say Eaglebones finished high school. He might have some college education as well.
Jimmy, being a robot, had most of his knowledge pre-programmed, but he's pretty curious, so he probably learned a lot on his own.
Jimmy, being a robot, had most of his knowledge pre-programmed, but he's pretty curious, so he probably learned a lot on his own.
Zelgadiss: Private tutoring by his great-grandfather in reading, writing, mathematics, science, etc. He was also tutored in sword-skills and advanced shamanist magic by Zolf and Rodimus.
Yrael: N/A.
Sunshine: Only got her high school diploma (by the skin of her teeth) thanks to an intercession by her subversive Other Lit. teacher and a lot of cajoling by Charlie to keep her from dropping out.
Yrael: N/A.
Sunshine: Only got her high school diploma (by the skin of her teeth) thanks to an intercession by her subversive Other Lit. teacher and a lot of cajoling by Charlie to keep her from dropping out.
Meg has a high school diploma, a B.Sc., and will be starting McGill's M.D.,C.M. program in the fall.
Amy had tutors, she had a lot of tutors, but many of them were focused on things like dancing and harp-playing and deportment. She's learned most of the useful stuff on her own.
Anna completed most of a journalism degree before her once-and-future siblings kicked off the Apocalypse, broke her brain, and got her institutionalized. Thanks, Castiel.
Lily went to Muggle schools till she was eleven, and is a student at Hogwarts. (Her dad also makes her keep up with at least some of the proper Muggle curriculum over the summer and as she can, because he's a little horrified at the subjects Hogwarts doesn't bother with. Like literature. And maths.)
Remus was home schooled and now goes to Hogwarts.
And Gigi went to a proper Southern college, where she pledged the right sorority and left with a B.A. and an "M.R.S. degree."
Amy had tutors, she had a lot of tutors, but many of them were focused on things like dancing and harp-playing and deportment. She's learned most of the useful stuff on her own.
Anna completed most of a journalism degree before her once-and-future siblings kicked off the Apocalypse, broke her brain, and got her institutionalized. Thanks, Castiel.
Lily went to Muggle schools till she was eleven, and is a student at Hogwarts. (Her dad also makes her keep up with at least some of the proper Muggle curriculum over the summer and as she can, because he's a little horrified at the subjects Hogwarts doesn't bother with. Like literature. And maths.)
Remus was home schooled and now goes to Hogwarts.
And Gigi went to a proper Southern college, where she pledged the right sorority and left with a B.A. and an "M.R.S. degree."
→ Ben Wade graduated with honors from the school of hard knocks a self-made outlaw academy. The less cheeky answer: No formal schooling -- his mother taught him how to read and write.
→ Gina Cowell double-majored in English and communications in undergrad; she also has a master of professional studies in public relations and corporate communications.
→ Kate Warner moved quite a bit when she was younger, and spent her last two years of high school at Cairo's American International School. She majored in economics at Stanford. She had just gotten started with the MBA program at Stanford when her mom died in London; Kate dropped her classes and left California to go be with her father and sister.
→ Ned Stark has no formal education; he was raised as a soldier among soldiers, which was an education all by itself.
→ Raylan Givens is ... debatable! Because me and my feeble brain need to re-watch canon to check a quote, and because I can't remember if Elmore Leonard's latest novel, Raylan, addresses this issue, or if I'm making that up entirely. (Either is possible!) Raylan quit digging coal and got out of Harlan at 19; I believe he went to college, and then joined the Marshals Service. (One of Leonard's earlier novels -- Riding the Rap, maybe -- mentions military service in his background, and his sharp-shooting skills caught the attention of the Marshals Service. But, see, I think the ~show~ is going for a clearer juxtaposition with Raylan and Boyd -- i.e., Raylan went to college, Boyd joined the military. And the ~show~ is where I'm primarily pulling from, and padding backstory from book!Raylan as necessary.)
Basically: I need more coffee, y'all.
→ Gina Cowell double-majored in English and communications in undergrad; she also has a master of professional studies in public relations and corporate communications.
→ Kate Warner moved quite a bit when she was younger, and spent her last two years of high school at Cairo's American International School. She majored in economics at Stanford. She had just gotten started with the MBA program at Stanford when her mom died in London; Kate dropped her classes and left California to go be with her father and sister.
→ Ned Stark has no formal education; he was raised as a soldier among soldiers, which was an education all by itself.
→ Raylan Givens is ... debatable! Because me and my feeble brain need to re-watch canon to check a quote, and because I can't remember if Elmore Leonard's latest novel, Raylan, addresses this issue, or if I'm making that up entirely. (Either is possible!) Raylan quit digging coal and got out of Harlan at 19; I believe he went to college, and then joined the Marshals Service. (One of Leonard's earlier novels -- Riding the Rap, maybe -- mentions military service in his background, and his sharp-shooting skills caught the attention of the Marshals Service. But, see, I think the ~show~ is going for a clearer juxtaposition with Raylan and Boyd -- i.e., Raylan went to college, Boyd joined the military. And the ~show~ is where I'm primarily pulling from, and padding backstory from book!Raylan as necessary.)
Basically: I need more coffee, y'all.
Edited 2012-07-19 15:33 (UTC)
More coffee is ALWAYS an acceptable answer.
Since our coffee pot is dirty, I'm settling for that new Mt. Dew.
Verdict: Kinda weird.
Since our coffee pot is dirty, I'm settling for that new Mt. Dew.
Verdict: Kinda weird.
Twilight Sparkle is technically still in school, taking correspondence classes in magic from the Celestial Academy for Gifted Unicorns.
Alyx, on the other hand, has had no formal schooling whatsoever. By the time she was old enough to have it, schools no longer existed.
All my other pups are a big fat "N/A."
Alyx, on the other hand, has had no formal schooling whatsoever. By the time she was old enough to have it, schools no longer existed.
All my other pups are a big fat "N/A."
Edited 2012-07-19 14:36 (UTC)
Ben has been through public school and into college and in fact holds "several advanced degrees" according to canon. What the degrees are is never stated though.
Kate nearly graduated from West Point. And she would have if it hadn't been for those pesky "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" guidelines.
Julie is still in school.
Beast Boy has private tutors who come to Mt. Justice and was home schooled by his mom before that.
Hank went through elementary school, lumped middle and high school together in two years and then leapt straight into Harvard to graduate at 15. I'm still working on the math for this one.
Thalia made it to Middle School before running away.
Palamedes had a classic education for a member of the ruling class in Persia from the early middle ages.
Kate nearly graduated from West Point. And she would have if it hadn't been for those pesky "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" guidelines.
Julie is still in school.
Beast Boy has private tutors who come to Mt. Justice and was home schooled by his mom before that.
Hank went through elementary school, lumped middle and high school together in two years and then leapt straight into Harvard to graduate at 15. I'm still working on the math for this one.
Thalia made it to Middle School before running away.
Palamedes had a classic education for a member of the ruling class in Persia from the early middle ages.
Scorp is a student at Hogwarts for all his magical educational needs and was privately tutored prior-to as well in all the wizarding arts, literature, reading/writing, maths and more. He was also schooled in proper manners and etiquette too, but he tends to just be himself, so yeah.
Gwaine's father was a knight and Gwaine was expected to become a knight until a certain king got greedy, so he's had a pretty good education. He definitely knows how to read and write, he's been trained in horsemanship, weaponry, and combat, and he's also picked up some knowledge about magic along the way.
Gwaine's father was a knight and Gwaine was expected to become a knight until a certain king got greedy, so he's had a pretty good education. He definitely knows how to read and write, he's been trained in horsemanship, weaponry, and combat, and he's also picked up some knowledge about magic along the way.
Let's see here:
Sam Winchester: High school at lots of different places, followed by 3-ish years in pre-law at Stanford, with full intent to continue on through his JD. That whole plan got derailed by canon, so he never finished college and expects that he never will.
Moiraine Sedai: Grew up in court in Cairhien, as a member of a noble house and in direct line for the throne. As such, she had the benefit of tutors (including her father, who was a noted scholar) and the Great Library in Cairhien. When her ability to channel manifested, she went to the White Tower as a novice, and completed her education and her training as an Aes Sedai.
Gabriel Tam: Very traditional! I believe he earned the equivalent of a MBA before entering the business world.
Kim Ford: Received her MD from the University of Toronto.
Laura Roslin: Formal education in education either up through masters' level or possibly a doctorate, given that she was not only a teacher herself but also the Secretary of Education for the Twelve Colonies of Kobol (appointed by President Adar).
Louis Hoshi: High school equivalency on Aquaria prior to joining the Fleet and undergoing officer's training there. No other formal education and no plans to seek it.
Nick Sayre: Finished his sixth form with Sameth at Somersby. He'd intended to go on to college in Corvere (and actively tried to convince Sameth to join him), but canon has thrown something of a wrench into his plans...
Jack Sparrow: More than he openly admits to, including the necessary mathematics needed for navigation and account-keeping that would be needed by a successful merchant captain. He also both reads and speaks multiple languages. Good luck getting him to explain where he learned any of it. :)
Sam Winchester: High school at lots of different places, followed by 3-ish years in pre-law at Stanford, with full intent to continue on through his JD. That whole plan got derailed by canon, so he never finished college and expects that he never will.
Moiraine Sedai: Grew up in court in Cairhien, as a member of a noble house and in direct line for the throne. As such, she had the benefit of tutors (including her father, who was a noted scholar) and the Great Library in Cairhien. When her ability to channel manifested, she went to the White Tower as a novice, and completed her education and her training as an Aes Sedai.
Gabriel Tam: Very traditional! I believe he earned the equivalent of a MBA before entering the business world.
Kim Ford: Received her MD from the University of Toronto.
Laura Roslin: Formal education in education either up through masters' level or possibly a doctorate, given that she was not only a teacher herself but also the Secretary of Education for the Twelve Colonies of Kobol (appointed by President Adar).
Louis Hoshi: High school equivalency on Aquaria prior to joining the Fleet and undergoing officer's training there. No other formal education and no plans to seek it.
Nick Sayre: Finished his sixth form with Sameth at Somersby. He'd intended to go on to college in Corvere (and actively tried to convince Sameth to join him), but canon has thrown something of a wrench into his plans...
Jack Sparrow: More than he openly admits to, including the necessary mathematics needed for navigation and account-keeping that would be needed by a successful merchant captain. He also both reads and speaks multiple languages. Good luck getting him to explain where he learned any of it. :)
Mark is a senior at Reginald VelJohnson High School (yes, Reginald VelJohnson; Kirkman is a Child of the 80s). He graduates this spring and will attend a university in Upstate California that may or may not have a banana slug as its mascot. (Canon does not say, only "Upstate University," but I happen to like UC Santa Cruz, so I'm working from there.)
senior at Reginald VelJohnson High School
That is awesome.
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