Sentence examples for educated background from inspiring English sources

It's a word that is used to ridicule and label people who come from a less educated background than the rest of society.

He was also challenged about his privately educated background, as the leader of a party that claims to be anti-establishment.

Some young women who come from a less privileged or less educated background or live in more conservative neighborhoods and cities are a lot more bound by tradition.

Sixty years her junior, John Hamilton was a bohemian drifter, a dropout from a middle-class, educated background, a disaffected American who called himself "Juan" and lived by casual labour.

The Ukip leader made the comments in an ITV debate with young voters, who gave him a hard time over his party's policies on immigration, his privately educated background, and the wealth of the party's former treasurer.

Mr Ellialti blames the government's attitude on what is he says is the "less educated background" of the majority in Turkey, claiming: "They do not have any international background or awareness of different lifestyles".

In particular, boys from more educated backgrounds spent 20 minutes more a week on their homework than children from less educated backgrounds, and girls from more educated backgrounds spent 55 minutes more.

He argued that performing arts schools had become dominated by those from affluent, privately educated backgrounds, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne.

While students like Mr. Singh and Ms. Sharma decided to take vocational classes on top of a more traditional college or university degree, many others come from far less educated backgrounds.

Whereas in the 1970s children devoted as much time to homework regardless of their parents' background, at the end of the period children from more educated backgrounds spent more than twice as much time on homework than children from less educated family backgrounds.

But when you find a disproportionate number of new stars hail from the same privately educated backgrounds, and fewer than before from socially disadvantaged positions, you don't have to be a class warrior to wonder why.