What was Mother Teresa's highest level of education?

Answer 1

A:

Mother Teresa began her career as a teacher, and had no medical qualifications. In fact one of her failings is that she simply did not understand basic health care. She provided hospices that allowed poor people to die with dignity, but many of her patients could have been cured with basic medical care and low cost medications, allowing them to return to their families. In fact, she even refused the low-cost medication that could have eased suffering for those in acute pain, believing that it was God's will that they suffer. A great many of her patients were Hindus, and her greatest wish was that they be baptised as Christians before dying.

Answer:

Mother Teresa had no qualifications in heath care or social work. However, she spoke five languages and was a really great communicator and fundraiser. The success of her missions was based on Mother Teresa's ability to keep donations coming in.

Catholic Answer:

She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948 and spent a few months in Patna to receive a basic medical training in the Holy Family Hospital and then ventured out into the slums. Initially she started a school in Motijhil (Calcutta) but soon she started tending to the needs of the destitute and starving. Her main objective in those early years was to provide a hospice where those left to die in the gutters could be brought where they could be cared for in their final hours surrounded by people who cared about them. It was not a medical facility and was never claimed to be as Mother Teresa had no one on her staff who could provide more than basic care. Her first years were fraught with difficulties. She had no income and had to resort to begging for food and supplies. It was not until 1969 when the documentary Something Beautiful for God, was filmed and released by Malcolm Muggeridge and his 1971 book of the same title that donations started pouring in from around the world. As money came in, Mother Teresa was able to expand her work and provide more than rudimentary care. See Discussion for more information on Mother Teresa's work and the difficulties she experienced.

Answer 2

She was home schooled by her parents since girls were not allowed to attend school in Albania. When she joined the Sisters of Loreto she was sent to Ireland for a time to learn English. That was about the extent of Mother Teresa's formal education.

Answer 3

Mother Teresa had no formal education. She grew up in Albania and girls were not allowed to attend school in that country. She was educated at home by her mother. Later, when she joined the Sisters of Loreto, she was sent to Ireland for three months to learn English.

Answer 4

She only had some very basic home schooling. Girls were not allowed to attend schools in Albania when she was a child. Later, when she joined the Sisters of Loretto, she was sent to Ireland to learn English.

Answer 5

mother teresa had very little education, the only education she had was the little maths and english that her mother and father had, later on she went to ireland to learn English.

Answer 6

Except for her training to become a Sister of Loreto, she had no formal education. She had been home schooled by her mother as girls were not allowed to attend school in Albania at the time.

Answer 7

She was home schooled and had no formal education.