overeducate
See also: over-educate
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- To educate too much.
- 1876, F. Colburn Adams, High Old Salts, page 12:
- You cannot overeducate the man you place in charge of a steam engine on board of a ship, and on whose judgment and skill a thousand valuable lives, to say nothing of property, may depend.
- 1921, J. Anderson Smith, "The Foreign Field", Mother and Child, volume 2, page 373:
- They are drilled and attend school on the premises, being taught by a capable mistress who understands their disabilities, and does not overeducate them, and yet tries to prevent their minds becoming fallow.
- 2004, Patricia Lewin, Out of Reach, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 177:
- “You know, one thing I find particularly unpleasant about you Americans is your tendency to overeducate your women.”
- 1876, F. Colburn Adams, High Old Salts, page 12: