unschooled

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They tried to help those far more fearful of bureaucracy and the state, traveling to the chors — the shifting river islands along the Brahmaputra — to assist the poor, unschooled inhabitants with the arduous paperwork.

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"Lovely women all unschooled and wild," Isabella writes, possibly referring to women's involvement in botany.

From BBC

But its creation signals a notable achievement: Owners of smaller restaurants, most of them unschooled in or uncomfortable with legislative politics, came together to make a persuasive case for their businesses and workers.

From New York Times

That’s a classic move in American culture: To see the unschooled and homespun as more authentic — and especially as more authentically American — than the sophistries of those decadent old Europeans.

From New York Times

How does an unschooled child learn to stick with the hard stuff, the boring stuff?

From New York Times