Hungry for the big time, he gets a rough education at the hands of his nemesis, Minnesota Fats of Chicago.
John Stauffer's Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (2008) emphasizes Lincoln's moral education at the hands of the great African American abolitionist.
James VI was of course recovering from a strenuous education at the hands of the grand Latinist and aristocratic republican George Buchanan.
Reno is a modern Henry James heroine — a rough-riding Daisy Miller, say — who wanders far from home and submits to what turns out to be a very unsentimental education at the hands of reputed sophisticates.
What Lucius finds, once arrived at the deserted "hospital" in the Carpathians, that hospital a bombed-out church, is a whole new medical education at the hands of the one nurse in the doctorless outpost.
Conceived by White as "a preface to Malory", it deals with the adventures of a young boy called Wart and his education at the hands of the magician Merlin.
Young, dumb and full of come, they take a road trip to a distant beach with a glamorous but troubled older woman, Luisa Maribel Verduu), and get an education at her hands that is anything but sentimental.
My friend Leon Wieseltier writes, in his New Republic "Diarist": In the winter of 1974, when I was a bright and callow student, and did not yet grasp the difference between knowledge and knowingness, I endured such a lucky education at the hands of Diana Trilling.
Mr. Feinberg's education at the hands of Chrysler, the government and economic reality is emblematic of the limits private equity players have encountered as they've sought to reap outsize returns while also contending that they had the smarts and managerial prowess to repair companies of any size.
The Michael who turned down work on the corner is long gone; his education at the hands of Snoop and Chris kicks off the episode, wrongfooting the viewer, and he is now a killer in training, as methodical with this as he was with his sporadic schoolwork: "One to the head, keep it quick".
