Intellectual Poverty – Lack of access to knowledge or distorted knowledge
“Formal education is a luxury in the dump. Because each day presents the challenge of mere survival, the scavengers don’t have the opportunity to care about much else. Consequently, the majority has neither dreams nor plans of any kind outside of finding the meal of the day. The sad result of this lifestyle is the steady formation of three deeply embedded and widespread lies: “I can’t do it”, “I am trash”, and “I don’t know anything”.”
Source: http://www.pottershouse.org.gt/intellectual-poverty/
For more on what the Scriptures say on this form of poverty and combating it, see pages 8-9 of this Potter’s House document.