Many tradesmen I have worked with have had rich intellectual lives without a lot of formal schooling.
The Sun (2010)
She had no formal schooling.
Giles Whittell Spitfire Women of World War II (2007)
It's the end of your formal schooling.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Lacking formal schooling, he did not learn to read and write until adult life.
Divine, Robert A. (editor) & Breen, T. H & Frederickson, George M & Williams, R. Hal America Past and Present (1995)
His formal schooling ended before he learned to read or write.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)