Six weeks of schoolSourced
Six weeks at school.
University at sixteen.
Irish classical scholar Robert Tyrrell was taught mostly at home by his brothers and spent just six weeks at a private school. He entered Trinity College Dublin at 16, later became a professor of Greek, and taught Oscar Wilde.
His education took
an unusual route.
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