Most of the older miners have just a primary school education and some are illiterate.
Not bad for an illiterate Ethiopian peasant who as a child never went to a day of school.
We see so many statistics that horrify us: how many are hungry, how many are illiterate, how many are denied access to clean water and sanitation.
He read everything and talked about what he read to his fellow townsmen, patients who were illiterate peasants, the estate shepherds, and this gave him a local reputation for foolishness.
I'm functionally illiterate.
As many as half remained illiterate or semi-illiterate in both Vietnamese and English and never became U.S. citizens.
She was born to an illiterate mother who ran her own hacienda.
Years later we realized her marks were a ruse. My mother was illiterate; she had only received a third-grade education.
If one is illiterate here, it is only because he wants to be, because education is free and so is the health care, which is fundamental in our lives.
Broadcast medium called best for reaching poor and illiterate.
Frau Schmitz was illiterate almost all her life; she only learned to read and write in prison.
The daughter of an illiterate mother who encouraged her daughter to read and write, she tells me when she was young she was mocked as she walked to school alone.
"If she hadn't done that, I'd be illiterate," Miller says.
In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although he hated books,this caused him to be not wholly illiterate.
A former groom and then a jockey and quite illiterate, he was a protege of the notorious Christian Weber, one of Hitler's oldest party cronies and himself a horse fancier, who by fraudulence had amassed a fortune and a great racing stable after 1933.
Still, most Afars remain illiterate, with little access to clean water or to medicine.
I have been illiterate for so long.
Dismissive of Waheeba, she scorns the very idea that this lump of a woman, “obese, menopausal, illiterate”, could be her rival in anything.
But the number of people choosing to be malnourished, illiterate, lacking in basic possessions and drinkers of dirty water all at once is probably fleetingly small.
Second, about one-third of the population is considered “illiterate”, meaning in this context that not even a full-fledged medical EEG can convert their brain activities into actions.
In his free time, he wrote letters home for wounded and illiterate Civil War soldiers.
He was fond of calling his detractor illiterate, denouncing his scientific theories as illegitimate and illusive.
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