Sentence examples for formal tuition from inspiring English sources

Lessons continued off and on until he was 16, when his formal tuition ended.

None of the children who took part in the study received any formal tuition in reading or writing.

Meanwhile, her younger sisters were intrigued and László allowed them to feel the pieces, seeing them as toys, with no formal tuition until they were five.

He first began to play on his father's clarinet as an inquisitive four-year-old, and went on to make his own discoveries of music and instrumental technique without formal tuition.

'So,' we asked Elliot, 'which countries have you visited?' 'Well I was born in Africa,' he said, 'but I feel like I own the world.' Part of the Hacienda served as a classroom, giving Elliot his first taste of formal tuition.

Born in Chicago, he moved with his family to California as a child, and though he described his father as a gangster and gambler, William Zevon took his parental responsibilities seriously enough to sign his son up for formal tuition in classical piano.

Thanks to articles, tutorials, YouTube "how-to" videos and more, there are all kinds of interesting ways to educate yourself without a formal curriculum (or tuition).

The starting point is to define clearly the building blocks of musical learning, which are, to my mind: singing; reading music; access to instrumental tuition (both formal and informal); digital technology; attending live performance; creative involvement in composition; improvisation and performance of their own work.

Children from lower class backgrounds are thus excluded from formal education due to inability to pay tuition and sponsor fees (Li [2006]).

In coming to this conclusion, we examined the differences between mentoring and coaching and decided that mentoring differs from coaching in that coaching involves a more formal arrangement than mentoring with greater focus on tuition in specific experiences to achieve a defined goal in a controlled timeframe [ 20].

Moreover, Singapore's formal education system is supplemented by a thriving "private tuition" industry.