Sentence examples for spotty education from inspiring English sources

Dreiser's spotty education in parochial and public schools was capped by a year (1889 90) at Indiana University.

As a result, Lucia received a spotty education, during which she was repeatedly left back by reason of having to learn a new language.

At age four Markham went with her father to British East Africa, where she received a spotty education while hunting with African tribesmen and learning to speak Swahili and several African dialects.

That makes commercial career colleges particularly vulnerable because they often draw low-income students with spotty education histories and they often charge considerably more than public two-year colleges.

She continued to make movies on both sides of the Atlantic, receiving a spotty education (arithmetic between takes, according to Ms. Mills), but "always feeling a hunger to read and learn what an educated person should know".

Still, I read vastly, read what was current rather than what was prescribed, and came away with a spotty education (a double major in History and English, with a junior-year swoop into Krishna Vaid's creative writing class), but with a real fever for art.

With schools here in service only sporadically, and many good teachers gone, even the privileged, like Akhmed, are getting spotty educations.

With a spotty formal education, Havel gravitated to the theatre, particularly the Theatre on the Balustrade, which was a center of bohemian artists.