Punahou School which was once known as Oahu College is a private prep school located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Barack Obama attended the school in 1979 where he became conscious of his African American side and learned what it meant to be.
Mother Teresa never attended college except for a brief stay at an academy in Ireland where she learned English.
An Academy of Sciences is a learned society dedicated to sciences.
He got the basics from the local grade school at Hillsborough, NH. Pierce attended Hanover (NH) Academy and Francestown (NH) Academy and learned enough to pass the entrance exam at Bowdoin College in 1820. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1824 at age 20. He studied classical languages, mathematics, history, mineralogy, chemistry and philosophy. He learned law by reading with various lawyers until he could pass the bar exam.
Betsy Ross went to a public Friends or Quaker School
He did not attend a school he learned from his own life experiences.
American Council of Learned Societies was created in 1919.
"Learned" is a word that is used in both American English and British English. However, it is more commonly spelled as "learnt" in British English.
He knew he was African-American (or more accurately, he knew he was biracial) since he was little. He was born in an era when there were not that many interracial marriages, and he was raised mainly by white relatives, even though he had black features. So, by the time he got to middle school and high school, he was quite aware of his racial history, and had been since he was a young child-- by all accounts, his mom and his maternal grandparents never hid anything from him about his heritage.
I've learned from our youth counselor (i attended their college class) that a bibliophilist is a person who collects books. A book collector.
I attended a traditional pow-wow event last weekend, where I learned about Native American culture through vibrant dances and songs.
The past tense of "learn" is "learned" in American English and "learnt" in British English.
Andrew Jackson attended a small country school sporadically. He did not graduate. He learned enough on his own to become a frontier lawyer.