The word "schooled" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who is knowledgeable or experienced in a particular area, either through actual schooling or through personal experience. For example, "He was schooled in art history, having graduated from the university with a degree in the subject."
A unifying theme is to positively acknowledge their roots, including a strong connection with Salford – Giggs still lives in the city; Scholes was born there; United's Cliff and Littleton Road training grounds, where they were all schooled in football, are in Salford.
Like young radicals across Europe and the US, they have been schooled in the ways of the modern middle classes: launching startup businesses, working two or three casual jobs; entrepreneurship, loose living and wild partying are the default way of life.
Whereas until the end of the 19th century there were writers practiced in the art of libretto writing and thoroughly schooled in the repertoire, in the 20th century, it was left in the hands of dilettantes.
"I didn't know a lot about Yorkshire before this year's Tour," said Froome, who was born in Kenya and schooled in South Africa.
The boys have been schooled in Zimbabwe all their lives, but in a few months Max and Jake would be off to boarding school.
It was as if the older man had become a sort of mentor, schooled in the dark arts of public administration.
They describe an intense young man home-schooled in rural Idaho, who after dabbling in ballet and Buddhism joined the army but grew disgusted with war.
But strikingly, he says his children might never have been home-schooled if the two eldest had not been bullied at primary school.
The home-schooling network buzzes with good news: a family with three home-schooled children at Harvard; a home-schooler with a bestselling novel; first, second and third place in the 2000 National Spelling Bee; a first university for home-schooled children (see article).
To that privileged list you can now add successful young British actors including Harrow-schooled Benedict Cumberbatch and old Etonians Damian Lewis and Tom Hiddleston, pop singer Laura Marling and the newest supermodel, Cara Delevingne (Poppy's sister), all products of expensive public schools.
At the airfield he discussed social issues, as he often does (when he asked how many people in the audience, home-schooled their kids he got a huge cheer), but he spent more time talking about manufacturing, which, he said, "creates wealth.
