“Reading Mrs. Wilder’s contributions, most folks doubtless have decided that she is a college graduate.  But, ‘my education has been what a girl would get on the frontier,’ she informs us.  ‘I never graduated from anything and only attended high school two terms.’  Folks who know Mrs. Wilder though, know she is a cultured, well-educated gentlewoman.  Combined with inherent ability, unceasing study of books has provided the necessary education, and greater things have been learned from the study of  life itself.”

From the book, Little House in the Ozarks