And, by the measure of the late-Victorian age, Jude is scarcely "educated" at all.
She was very young, shy, scarcely educated, though she had attended an élite girls' boarding school in Jaipur.
Sadly, our children are today scarcely educated on the documents that established the rights of free-born Englishmen, as it is often referred to.
On a simultaneous narrative track, he has to prove to his police interrogators that he, a scarcely educated Mumbai "slum dog", has not been cheating.
Most of the migrant parents, scarcely educated themselves, are desperate to give their children better opportunities but cannot afford the public school fees and often cannot enroll them anyway because they lack residency papers.
There was scarcely an educated, nonreligious Eastern European Jew who didn't.
Scarcely older or better educated than her charges, she is tricked out of her pathetic wage by the mayor, but promised payment in full at the end of her one-month stint, plus a bonus if she keeps any pupil from dropping out.
The fact that even highly educated Americans are scarcely aware of this past has made it difficult for the United States to learn from its experiences.
Mary Wollstonecraft, in her "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792), scoffed that a mother who "neither suckles nor educates her children, scarcely deserves the name of a wife, and has no right to that of a citizen".
Now scarcely 10 per cent are.
