But the website also pointed out that the "open curriculum" project is not the MIT's formal education.
The implementation of this project sets an example of non-formal education for the out-of-school children in the poor rural areas.
I bought them in charity shops or asked for them as birthday presents; together, books and CARDS gave me an understanding of words and Numbers in the absence of any formal education.
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There, at age 17, I started my formal education, writing letters and Numbers with sticks in the dirt.
UNICEF, for example, have worked very hard on training enough teachers, working on non-formal education as well as alternative kind of education - for example for the pastoralist children.
The child has received formal education over an extended period.
Examples include the work of accountants, engineers, and attorneys, whose technical skills are acquired through formal education.
There, they recruited local people whose standard of living was low: 26% had no formal education, only half owned TVs, none had a car and only a tiny minority had a telephone in the house.
In old China, eighty per cent of the children received no formal education.
He learned some blacksmithing but had very little formal education.
Like other women of the time, Abigail lacked formal education; but her curiosity spurred her keen intelligence, and she read avidly the books at hand.
In her view, medical students should learn to trivialise death enough to cope but humanise it enough to help, and their formal education caters disproportionately to the former.
Among the most erudite conservative authors and political thinkers of her time, the sum total of Isabel Mary Paterson's formal education consisted of two years in a tiny log schoolhouse.
That marked the end of my formal education, but that doesn't mean I stopped learning.
You mustn't mistake lack of formal education for lack of wisdom.