[Brian Allen]

<< Shakespeare was ill-[Schooled] and relatively unlettered. >>

So were Henry Ford and Winston Churchill.

And are Bill Gates and Richard Branson.

Shall I go on?

And, please do not confuse "schooled" with Educated.

[snarks_when_bored]

In Shakespeare's time, it would have been much more difficult to engage in self-education than in later times. Life was still for the most part (as Hobbes wrote) "nasty, brutish and short".

And the historical, literary and Biblical references in Shakespeare are of heroic scope. It would be inaccurate to describe the author(s) of those plays as un-schooled, it seems to me.

Churchill was not un-schooled, nor is Gates (even though he dropped out). And neither Gates nor Ford nor Branson are known for their knowledge of history or literature or the Bible or such stuff, knowledge which comes from prolonged study and meditation on the material.

Still, I take your point...

[fortunecookie]

And, please do not confuse "schooled" with Educated.

So true. Wasn't it Einstein who nearly failed math?

[kgdallen]

Horse puckey! Churchill was 'to the manor born', educated at the very best schools.