The phrase "modestly educated" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically means that someone has a moderate level of education, not highly educated but also not lacking in education. Example: Despite being only modestly educated, she was able to secure a well-paying job through her determination and hard work.
The Gdansk workers inspired the Solidarity movement, led by Lech Walesa, a modestly educated electrician who had been fired from his job at the shipyards.
Delilah's listeners are overwhelmingly female, modestly educated and, as much as you can judge from listening to the show, middle-of-the-road politically.
Still, many of those were as unlucky as the most modestly educated when it came to finding work after their release.
While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page.
Untutored and modestly educated, he was championed by some of the leading voices in American poetry and compared to Emily Dickinson, William Blake and William Wordsworth while living alone and churning out thousands of poems in a Montclair boardinghouse.
Their son, Radek, soon transformed into Rod, is their triumphant achievement, an all-Canadian boy whose connection to the past is so slight that he chooses a modestly educated half-German manicurist, Anita, for his bride.
Guided by his father's manager, Nicholas Biddle, he began building modestly, favoring educated but not ostentatiously stylish architectural firms, among them Peabody, Wilson & Brown and Tracy & Swartwout.
"I was able to get unique access to getting the scripts and going to live rehearsals and, I think I can modestly say, make an extremely educated guess as to what folks should see," he said.
Dr. Eloundou-Enyegue worries that Africa's modestly declining birthrates reflect relatively rich, educated people reducing to invest in raising "quality" children, while poor people continue to have many offspring, strengthening divisions between haves and have-nots.
Had she not been educated, who would have supported me?" asks Manizha modestly who wants to become a math teacher in the future.
My wife (educated by nuns, theology degree from Oxford) and I began things very modestly indeed, with a metallic light-up "tree" from Habitat and a Marks & Spencer oven-ready turkey, sprouts and potato combo.
