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Daily Entertainment; School Edition!
Happy Thursday, Milliways!
Anyone else having allergy issues? Mine are through the roof today for some reason. Blech!
For today's Daily Entertainment, I present you with this question:
Education! What kind of schooling has your character gone through? Would they like to have more school if possible? Did they like what they had?
Anyone else having allergy issues? Mine are through the roof today for some reason. Blech!
For today's Daily Entertainment, I present you with this question:
Education! What kind of schooling has your character gone through? Would they like to have more school if possible? Did they like what they had?
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Shephard graduated from Preston County High School and turned up at the nearest Marine Corps recruiting station the next day. These days he's getting on-the-job training in how to captain a ship and is contemplating asking the Bar for some of the basic texts they used to require at Annapolis, but that's as close as he gets to wanting more school.
El Santo finished the legal requirements for schooling in Mexico at a very good Catholic school run by nuns. Beyond that I don't know, but I suspect he hangs out with enough scientists and other highly educated types to have absorbed a certain amount of college knowledge by osmosis.
Varric and his brother had private tutors, and Varric got some more education in street skills from highly disreputable friends. He's fine with that.
Medic went to a reasonably reputable medical school but there is no proof of that as he and his archrival accidentally reenacted (or possibly pre-enacted, I'd have to check dates) the Reichstag fire by both sneaking onto the campus to try and set their enemy's documents on fire so as to ruin future career prospects. He prefers private studies now.
Edward Kenway got the very basics of schooling available to a farmer's son born in 1693. He's just fine with what he's got, thanks.
Stacker Pentecost... *sigh* The background info in the Pacific Rim novelization and the wiki comes from someone who doesn't understand that other countries don't use their military schools as dumping grounds and disciplinary tools the way America does. In his background info it says that when he was twelve he burned down the club that belonged to the man who murdered his father, then attacked the guy, and that afterwards he was packed off to military school where an aptitude for service led him to join the RAF and get trained as an officer with thus-and-such specializations at Leuchars. That's not how it works. In the States there are private military academies primarily for young men that are used as disciplinary options. In the UK, as far as I can tell, military schools are rare and are for the children of military families who are probably going to go into the service themselves when they get older. I have Millicanoned that he went to the Duke of York Royal Military School on the grounds that it's the first UK military school to admit children who were not from soldiers' families. If I had the option I would go back and rewrite his history to ignore that part of the novelization, because it embarrasses me every time I see it, but it's a bit late for that now.
And Ellen got a Vault education. This involves a one-room schoolhouse kind of deal for all children from about age six or seven up through age sixteen, which is when they take the GOAT (Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test). The GOAT determines what jobs they will be doing in the Vault for the rest of their lives. I have millicanoned that people in certain tracks, like science or administration, continue their schooling under the Vault teacher for a few years after that. People who get other results are mostly shifted to on-the-job training within a month or two of the GOAT. Ellen was allowed to finish out a month or two in Mr. Brotch's classroom and then spent the next three years in seminarian training under Reverend Avellone, the Vault's old chaplain. This was, alas, interrupted by the events of canon. She finished out her training on the surface, under the guidance of Knight-Captain Colvin of the Brotherhood of Steel, and was ordained as one of their chaplains shortly after that. That and a lot of weapons training from various Bar people and from the Brotherhood's more specialized instructors have been the extent of her formal education. She's pretty much okay with that, because really, it's more than most of the Wasteland gets.
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Giovanni - got the standard education for a merchant's son in 18th century Venice, which included reading and writing and otherwise centred very much on how to run a business. He wasn't really very interested in it, too dreamy-headed.
Sharpe - None at all. He couldn't even write his name until he was in his twenties.
Gavroche - In my head, he learned to write his name and read a bit and maybe even numbers from whichever of Les Amis had time and inclination and could get him to sit still long enough. Other than that, he only really got an education after he came to Milliways.
Jonathan - Attended Sunnydale High for the whole of his educational life, and had a thoroughly miserable time.
Nancy - ...my headcanon is that her parents were well-off, so she got at least some schooling. And then she got pregnant at about sixteen, and that was the end of the good life.
Harry Callahan - Standard modern American schooling. He has no particular feelings about it.
Roshaun - He's had the education befitting a prince of Wellakh. His feelings about it are mixed.
Michael Carpenter - Standard American schooling, as for Harry, but I think he'd have much preferred the hands-on crafting subjects to anything book-learned.
James Norrington - as for Ichabod, but he'd have rather been out sailing than sat in a classroom. If he did a degree, it's because his family expected it, and it's more likely he became a midshipman very young instead.
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Fluttershy probably had some sort of Cloudsdale equivalent of Cheerilee's classroom, but as they've never seen fit to expand on her past outside of Summer Flight Camp...
Kain, as king's ward, would have had the best tutors in Baron. I doubt he cared much about education, though.
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I like to think that Lou at least made it to community college, maybe a semester or two, as he has more of a head for higher education. He received the same training as Tommy at the Fire Academy, but he'd also had to do some extra studying in order to pass the lieutenant's exam. He's fine with the education he's gotten, although he's usually open to learning new things.
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Sherral is a bit more complicated.
Since I'm millicanoning that Archadia's education system is much like that of the Roman Empire, Sherral would have gone to a ludus litterarius between the ages of five and nine. Since his family wasn't well off, and he was from a conquered territory, this likely just involved a bunch of children gathering in the street to do schoolwork with whichever teachers weren't busy doing other work, and probably paid for by donations and the occasional attention of a wealthy merchant of Archadian businessman looking to add a charitable credit to their name. He never would have taken up study with a grammaticus, being not affluent or upper-class enough, and definitely would never have studied rhetoric.
Outside of the litterarius, he learned to use a bow from when he was a child (like, I suspect, almost all the boys and a fair amount of the girls would when you live in a world where almost all wildlife wants to kill you), and received tutelage in the sword. When he hit about nine or ten years old he would have continued this training with the local guard, while acting as a messenger and Paling repair assistant - essentially running back and forth around the wall that encircled his city, delivering messages and carrying tools to repair the generators for the magical shield, and getting some training from the guards when there was a free hour or two.
And then, when he was fourteen, he joined the Archadian Army - because that's pretty much the only way to improve your station in Archadia, and because it plays well to his skills. This would have involved a course at the Akademy, which is the Archadian military's specialised training facility.
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Hank McCoy graduated from Harvard at 15! They don't really say much beyond that in X-Men: First Class so I have decided he has a bachelors in engineering and biochemistry (to give credence to his building the black bird, Cerebro, and the formula to supposedly cure physical mutations). I've also decided during the decade we will never see between the first and second movies, he went back to school and earned a doctorate as well as picked up molecular biology and genetics.
Mulan loved school but comes from a culture where degrees and such weren't a thing. My head canon has it that her parents created the school she attended and she would have graduated had the Ogre Wars not come to call.
Anton Gorodetsky misses college more and more as he continues doing field work. He likely had the Soviet equivalent of a bachelors in computer science.
Quinlan Vos graduated and became not only a Jedi knight but a Jedi master. He has fond memories (those he can find at least) of life at the Jedi Temple despite the problems he has with the effectiveness of the Jedi in the greater society.
Andrea Nash graduated from high school and then went straight into the Order of Merciful Aid's academy where she earned top marks. She is a shining star and would be one hell of an asset if her boss would trust her. Ballistics, tactics, psychology, magical theory and criminology are all subjects she would have studied.
Brimstone would not wish his education on anyone. Not even his worse enemy.
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How this all fits in with her first series and the first volume of Wolverine, I don't know. Curse you retcons!
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Bruce Wayne - went to Princeton, then dropped out. In another life, he would have finished and then gone into the business, most likely. But no, he doesn't mind not finishing his degree. He's smart enough not to need it, and he's got other things on his mind.
Bruce Banner - is/was an academic, with every educational qualification. He couldn't do more school if he tried...or rather, he could always do another PHd, but he's already at the top of his field, so why bother?
Javert - none, beyond learning to read and write, and that probably wasn't in a formal classroom setting. He canonically reads in his few leisure hours, even though he hates it, so that he won't be illiterate. It bothers him as a sign of his background, but not as a mark of his abilities. He was the best policeman there was (at least to the letter of the law). And even if he'd ever wanted more schooling, it simply wasn't an option for him.
Jean Valjean - canonically learned to read at age forty, in prison. So that he might further his hatred of the world when he was released, if I remember rightly. :\ After his transformation, he educated himself, even to the point of modifying his speech and accent. He's not bothered about no more formal schooling - as with Javert, it simply wasn't an option for him - but he wishes every child could have it now. Formal education aside, he is always learning. He thinks about, and questions everything. He never stops thinking, literally. And canonically, on occasion, for full days/nights at a time, without moving. Thought, and reasoning, and being open to development is what keeps him as
a narrative counterpoint to Javerta man who can adapt to circumstance and maintain an open heart.Robin...yeah, tough one. Because there's a whole canon Thing about how two noblemen 'lost' him after his father was executed - and his father was a friend of a hell of a lot of nobles - so Robin had to fend for himself from the age of six. So I guess there's no formal schooling...but on the other hand, he would have had to be recruited by a landowner to serve in the army. So he could have either got himself a job on an estate as a boy, and been trained in archery and managing the land and whatnot - and reading and writing, because he can do both - in which case his recruitment would be automatic. Or he could have simply been working in a village somewhere, and signed himself up out of lack of other options/for the chance to travel. Anyway, irrelevant: he likely has no formal education. When I take him through canon and he learns of his past, he might rue the fact that if he hadn't been 'lost', he would have had proper schooling at the hands of his father's friends. He's a very smart bloke, and a natural leader. He can see the benefits of education. At the same time, he's from an age where it's mostly left to the monks, so he won't be too upset.
...look at the essays I write when I'm trying to avoid writing an essay! *facepalm*
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Avoiding paperwork rather than other essays, in my case, but uh yes.
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Or rubbish, depending on how you look at it. :\
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Thor had tutors and a prince's education in all kinds of things: history, diplomacy, statecraft, some amount of magic, customs of various worlds, Asgard's version of science, lots of warrior arts. He was mostly interested in the warrior arts part. His brother Loki was the scholar; Thor always wanted to put down the books and go run around and hit things. He is JUST FINE with having outgrown his lessons.
River... aheh. Well. She was a child prodigy, who was taking at least some graduate-level courses (in math and physics) as a pre-teen. Then, at age 14, she went off to a special fancy Academy for extremely gifted students, which promised to maximize its students potential. Instead it gave them involuntary brain surgery and conditioning to turn them into traumatized psychic super-soldiers, so, uh... escaping from there was the end of her formal schooling! She's still interested in learning, and in physics journals and so forth, but she has zero interest in ever going back to a school. Too much associated trauma now.
Regan was very smart, and probably skipped a couple of grades (or whatever her society's equivalent is), but not the same level of prodigy as River. She went through all the normal schooling of a well-off smart kid in the Core, including university and I think a Masters degree equivalent. (Pretty sure I said 'social communications' with a minor-equivalent in linguistics, at least for undergrad.) She's more than old enough now to not want to go back to school, although if she had a lot more free time she wouldn't be averse to doing one of those classes for adult community members (or seniors, a few years down the line, though she's not really in that category quite yet).
Clare was illiterate until she joined the organization as a Claymore trainee. This isn't unusual for her world. As a Claymore, she learned to read and write, got an EXTREMELY selective version of history, and was trained in a wide variety of skills the organization thought it was useful for Claymores to have, although I kind of side-eye some of their decisions there. She has no interest in more education as such, although she's willing to learn anything that seems practical to her.
Trowa has an undergrad degree in art history, which he got by correspondence/online courses, mostly because Preventers said anybody working for them needed to have a degree and it seemed to him a useful thing to have. Art history just interested him, although admittedly also Trowa likes doing unexpected things in a deadpan fashion. Before that, all of his schooling was via the extremely haphazard process of getting taught useful things by the mercenaries who raised him, getting taught random things that some mercenary or other wanted to teach a kid, and self-educating with books and the internet and eavesdropping. He had never been in an actual classroom until a year or two ago when he
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Helena would have possibly given her writing arm to go to Oxford, but while there were womens' colleges there (One opened in '79 and one in '86,) her family wouldn't pay for her to go. Possibly if the Warehouse hadn't snatched her up, she might have persuaded Charles to let her know. I am certain she did attend more than a few lectures, however. She has considered school in the modern world, but she hasn't done anything about it. I think she can't get her head around online classes.
Valentine is in Middle School, but has the mental capacity of college. She can take or leave school in general, but would probably rather just get going and do things.
Mark dropped out of Brown because he got tired of it. He's thought of going back to school, but he'd really onlt do well in a film or art school setting. He's smart, but not cut out for academia.
Peter has training as a blacksmith from his father. He can read and write, due to his parents teaching him, but he doesn't really have much of an idea of formal schooling. That's for people in cities or the nobility. Blacksmithing's enough for him.
Fantine has no school and can barely read. I've gone back and forth about her literacy because of some differences between musical and book canon on that. She has the letter from the Thenardiers, but I think she had people read it to her, and only kept it with her as a tiny connection to Cosette. Beyond that, she sees school as something unnecessary for her. She doesn't need to know all of those things. She knows and understands sewing, and that's enough for her.
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She was a complete bookworm in law school. By the time she got to Harvard she was still a bookworm but was confident enough to tell the loud frat boys to STFU when they partied too loudly.
In addition to the above: Shulkie is an accomplished pilot. She acquired said skill when she joined the Avengers. She also has combat training from Captain America. Hand-to-hand combat training also came from Cap and the other Avengers.
Shulkie has become proficient in international law, patent law, criminal defense, and various other specialties in law. The result is that she is a powerhouse attorney. If anyone at Milliways needs legal counsel they can come to Shulkie.
Then there's cosmic justice. She waw recruited by tne Living Tribunal to judge in a variety of cases on other planets. This required that she become proficient in the legal precedents of numerous other planets.
Shulkie has another dkil set: quaffing ale/beer with Thor and Herculee. She was taught by the best. She haw surpqww43e her tutors, however; she can now drink both of them under the table.
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So, she went to Poxstead College and got her doctorate in Teleportation Network Engineering. But I recently learned that this other fairy NPC graduated about 200 years ago. Dang, fairies are long lived for fluttery things. And she talks about it as though it only happened a few months ago. So... I am not too sure about Fairy Fixit graduating in the same year, but it can be close. Makes me wonder how long it took her to get that degree. Probably at that point Fixit was ready for some field experience...
Evil Chicken did once claim that he learned magic by attending evening classes. At the graduation party, he ate the class. It just another of his many origin stories, so who knows if it is true.
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Claudia skipped two grades before her family was out of the picture, and graduated high school at 16. She did a semester of college then, hated it, and dropped out rather than waste money on a degree she didn't feel she needed and would be bored out of her skull trying to get. In canon, Myka prods her to try again, and then they drop the storyline. How I've handled that: She did try again, and found online classes more to her taste... but Warehouse life is such that she could maybe swing one class at a time, and at that rate, by the time she has a degree she'll have a building in her head and there's no degree that can prepare you for that, so fuck it. She sincerely doubts many previous Caretakers (and certainly not Mrs. F, given the timeline we're probably looking at with her) had advanced education.
Apollo is a god; your argument is invalid. They just Know Stuff, far as I can tell.
Imp got some basic primary school in Llamedos, and then some further tutelage from one of the local bards when he expressed an interest in music (much to his father's chagrin). He doesn't feel the need for anything further, and at this stage of his life I'm not sure it's an option; Guild educations are mostly for people who aren't adults already.
Regulus is still in school, fast approaching his OWLs. Technically one can leave Hogwarts with OWLs alone, but the House of Black doesn't do that sort of thing, and in any case he doesn't want to. If wizarding Britain had university-level education, he'd be all over that shit, and not just as a means to put off having to deal with the upcoming war.
Red was taught to read and write by her grandmother, and... that's about it. Formal education's for the nobility. Everything else in her skill set she learned by doing.
Ruby... actually never went to school, technically. By the time the curse picks up she would be done with high school, and not only does Storybrooke not have any college-level options, she didn't think she was smart enough for it anyway. She has a decent head for numbers, though. After the curse breaks, I don't think she'd bother trying for college even if she could leave town to do it (she doesn't have the patience for online courses; it'd have to be in-person). What would be the point?
Woolly: Had a very good primary/secondary education, but uh... university wasn't so much an option. (Largely because there don't appear to have been campuses in Birmingham in the late 19th century. Also, people were wary of Jews at the time.) Helping his parents with their business amounted to an apprenticeship, but finance was never what he wanted to do with his life. He just wasn't sure what he did want to do until the Warehouse scooped him up. After that, he didn't see the need for further formal education; he was learning everything he needed to know on the job.
(Bonus round, Rebecca St. Clair: It's canon that she has a master's degree, and my headcanon that she finished it - insisted on finishing it, actually - before taking the Warehouse job. She figured if she dropped it before she was done she'd never get a chance to finish.)
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Eriond-- uh. Well. In the continuing saga of 'who in their right mind let Polgara raise a child,' there is zero evidence of Eriond actually receiving lessons of any kind, despite living among the supposed perpetual scholars that are Aldur's Disciples. He can read and write, but then again, he has a kind of omniscience which works on and off until he properly ascends. I don't know that he needed lessons, but I don't think Pol bothered, either. I mean, she kept Garion dirt ignorant. i may be bitter.
Lois went to whatever school was available to the military brat on the move a lot. She skipped a lot of class. She also did a semester at Metropolis University before being kicked out, and she hasn't gone back. She is juuust fine with that.
Tavi is, naturally, the most complicated. tl;dr: one of the finest educations in Alera, first mostly informally/slightly self-taught and then formally. On the one hand, he never went to high-end schooling until his teenage years; on the other hand, both Isana and Bernard really prized his intellect--for very, very good reason--and encouraged him to go far with it, and he'd always had plans to attend the Academy. They also just place importance on learning, so I believe there was schooling of some kind on the steadholt for the hold children. Tavi outstripped everyone and read as much as he could get his hands on in his spare time and in my headcanon taught himself extra mathematics mostly through sheer boredom. Once Sextus found him, Tavi was shipped off to the Academy for formal higher-level schooling, espionage training, and frankly a work-study thing going that was approximately an internship in running an empire. Tavi loved learning All The Things and once wanted to be a professional academic. He will make expanding affordable and available education a high priority once he's running the show.
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Raven finds school inherently hilarious.
Dean Winchester got his GED.
Wonder Woman was taught by the finest minds on Themyscira, and has learned quite a lot in the outside world (and space) since, as well.
Michael knows all and sees all, and probably had to be a teenager in school once or twice, in the past. So it goes.
Nynaeve had her Wisdom apprenticeship, plus a year or so of time spent as Accepted in Tar Valon.
Sam Tyler joined the police at 19, and thereafter had police training.
Galadan has gained knowledge through many eclectic pathways, up to and including instinct. Yay andain?
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Charles has a Bachelor of Science from somewhere, my headcanon is possibly Columbia and his PhD from Oxford, all focused on biology and genetics. The Marvel wiki mentions him having degrees in psychology later on which fits since Charles loves to learn and has a great interest in psychiatry and psychology as they're helpful for his mutation. Before that he attended some posh school in New York, I haven't yet decided if its in NYC or Westchester but someplace along the lines of Exeter. He enjoyed parts of it but he was dorky when he was young, Raven was the more popular one.
Ivan attended the finest Vor schools in Vorbarr Sultana until he attended the Barrayaran Imperial Academy at age 18 then followed the classic military career path. He's happy with the choice he's made and school for him was always a way to get to the military and keep an eye on Miles.
William dropped out of school at age 17 to run his family farm and after his father's death, he was going to school less and less. He would have liked to do more but for now he's working on getting his brother to a better school. So far both of them have had the basic education provided for free in one room schoolhouses in 1860s America. He's always reading whenever he can since he's very aware of how much he doesn't know.
Moist attended some nice but boring school in Uberwald before running away at age 16. Most of his education has been on the road, but he's a fast learner which makes him an effective conman.
Jane had a good education for a woman in her era as her father wished his daughter's to be educated and controlled most of it himself. They learned to read, write, French, Latin and possibly some Greek alongside other skills. Jane loved it and wishes she could have done more and so is constantly looking to learn more.
Demeter is a goddess and so formal schooling doesn't make sense in her context.
Sameth has had two parallel and different educational experiences. He attended Somersby, a private school in Ancelstierre that is clearly along the Eton/Harrow lines where he met Nick, played cricket and rugby while being far from home. His sister was at Wyverly, the sister school to Somersby that their mother attended. Then in the Old Kingdom, he was trained to fight, to be Abhorsen and to be a good ruler through observing, Perspective, when he and Ellimere would work in a different part of the castle, and when they can spending time with their parents. Also on his own time, he learned forge work in my headcanon from the palace smith who was willing to teach him. Sameth loves to learn and he's constantly curious especially about how things are made.
Tumnus was raised and taught by his father, in canon, its mentioned that his home has many books and my headcanon is that he's writing a history of Narnia.
The Pirate King had the early education of a Lord's son before running away to see and learning to be a pirate.
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At age 10 (in both numbering systems, yay overlap point), he became a Guardian cadet, and attended the Academy thereafter. This included gen ed, but was mostly a very intensive semi-military vocational school, being predominantly focused on combat and tactics, malware studies, system repair, and Gaming. His training lasted the equivalent of six years, and he enjoyed it much more than his earlier schooling; having passed his beta testing, he is now a full Guardian in the first stage of his employment, working at the Supercomputer's Port Authority.
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...Well, before that, she had normal school until the age of fourteen, when the Nazis destroyed her city (to put it MILDLY). After the first bombardment, it was unofficial training from various soldiers + self-education in the ways of 'how to understand German and Romanian outside textbooks + a focus on being a resistance fighter/teenage Red Army private and Not Dying', a three-year apprenticeship in the NKVD, and joint university and Red Room (a.k.a. spy and assassin) schooling.
Sometimes she puts herself through adult classes for various things, according to whim or what she thinks she needs to brush up on. There's more than a few improv-acting terms scattered across her past.
But she really is still pining for her linguistics and/or philology career that never was.
*potentially not the right term, but too tired to re-google things. *lazy*
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And he completed that training years ago, but as he'll never be made an official FBI agent, he now consults/"special investigates"/whatever and teaches at the Academy. (Or, depending on the point in canon, is unemployed.)
When he was younger, he used to have more issues with a classroom environment (or really, SOCIALIZING), but managed to adjust as he needed to, and is now even pretty effective at leading one (even if he is just talking at his students). But if he were going to leave what he's doing, I don't think it would be to pursue another degree or something like that.
Elle got through most of her first year of first grade at a public school in Michigan before she was pulled into the Company. While she was growing up in the Company and lucid enough for it, she had a lot of tutors for subjects like math, science, history, and English, but she was so disconnected with the world that a lot of it didn't stick. And she was given Company training in combat, weapons, forensics, foreign languages (I made all the Company agents fluent in Japanese the way the Others in Lost all spoke Latin because whatever), and driving. She still likes to learn things, but I don't think she'd ever feel comfortable in something like, going to a formal school, as that seems like something for other people.
Asami went to a Fancy Private School in Republic City, and finished her time there not very long ago. She's also been steeped in mechanics, technology, and chemistry since she was young, as well as in driving and piloting. And at this point, she's basically apprenticing with her father in terms of learning about business and finances. And she's taken private self-defense classes since she was a child. She knows a lot of people who went on to universities to study, but I don't think the same would really occur to her at this point. Given that she has the opportunity to learn so directly when it comes to what she wants to do, it doesn't make sense in her mind to leave that. Though she considers coming to the Bar an education in a whole lot of ways, and is happy to learn from others.
Katara didn't really have formal schooling given the conditions in the South Pole when she was growing up, but she was taught how to read and write, and apparently learned a lot about the history of the world and the other nations from her grandmother. She was also taught (in a very learn-by-doing sort of way) things like maintaining their settlement, hunting, medicine/healing, and raising livestock. In the North Pole she attended formal classes in waterbending (both in healing and in combat), and goes on to become a waterbending teacher for Aang and Korra. I'm not sure she'd seek out any more formalized education, but I thinks she does/did do a lot to spread waterbending knowledge and practices, particularly after the war.
Leslie went to public school in Pawnee and then majored in history at Indiana University. She always wanted to work in government and so went right to that as soon as she could and hasn't ever really wanted to leave. That said, she LOVED being in school (work? check! plenty of outlets for her energy? check!) and so if she could... somehow work and go to school again at the same time, I think she would. I'm sure she's certainly considered going to graduate school, I'm just... not sure how that can or will or has played out in the universe of the show?? Something.
Marceline never went to a formal school, given that by that point the world was being destroyed by the Mushroom War. She learned things from various people she knew (her parents, Simon Petrikov, Princess Bubblegum, etc.) and was self-taught in others (e.g., the guitar). She definitely has no interest in being in a classroom.
Hiccup's only "classroom"-like education we've seen is dragon fighting-turned dragon training. He's also learned how to read and write, and apprentices with a blacksmith. He's sort of more inclined toward being self-taught, but he's also really taken to teaching others.
Manny went through public schooling until he was 16, when he left home. He doesn't see much use for it.
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Juliet graduated college and went through the police academy (and she LOVED school)
Pinkie apparently completed all of the primary educational requirements needed of the average Equestrian.
Eponine was never formally educated, and Dixie received a basic education.