Jane Potter Deas Stuart was educated at Beath Secondary School, Fife, which she left in 1935. She then studied at Edinburgh University where she graduated in July 1938. Next, she trained to be a teacher at the then Edinburgh Provincial Training College, Moray House, Edinburgh, and then attended post-graduate training courses there too. At the time of her studies she lived in Lochgelly, Fife.
Jane Potter Deas Stuart later married and became Jane Potter Deas Dickson.
From the guide to the Papers of Jane Potter Deas Dickson (1917-2002), being degree and diploma and other educational certificates, 1934-1942, (Edinburgh University Library)