1.   He has given his village a school for girls and named it for his illiterate mother, Ram Kali.

2.   Her illiterate mother has excused Farida from kitchen tasks for half the day and says she hopes her daughter will teach her older sisters to read and write.

3.   His illiterate mother would force him to stay up late doing his homework.

4.   Pushed to study by his illiterate mother, he won a scholarship to medical school in Cairo.

5.   Thought of as a patrician New Englander, Adams was actually the son of a yeoman farmer and a probably illiterate mother.