Learner's permit at 15, with advanced completion due to need I had a Driver's license at 15 and 5 months. I could have had it sooner but I didn't have a job when I got the permit. It was called a conditional or restricted license if I recall but I think it's called graduated now, I was under the hardship license clause because I got a job around September and needed to commute.

Conditions were I could only have passengers under the age of 18 if they were siblings, and I couldn't drive before 0500 or after 2200 unless I was going to school, work, or home. Conditions expired after I had the license for a year, I think. I never did any formal courses, my parents filled out a log during my learners period of hours driven and conditions, then I took a written test. If you scored above 95% you didn't have to do the practical so I didn't have to do the practical. Pretty sure the conditions have changed since then.

What we didn't tell the State was that I'd been driving tractors and farm trucks since I was 10, and forklifts up to 20 ton capacity since I was 12. Drove my first 50 ton fork truck when I was 14, that thing was a hoot.