undereducate

English

Etymology

under- +‎ educate

Verb

1. To give an inadequate education.
   • 1984, Hershel D. Thornburg, Introduction to Educational Psychology, page 509:

     Throughout this decade, education must be increasingly upgraded and relevant. To fail to identify important human and societal needs is to undereducate students.

   • 1986, Les Sternberg, ‎Ronald L. Taylor, & ‎Jeffrey Schilit, So You're Not a Special Educator:

     A basic problem with the educable mentally retarded person is that we still do not know what his ultimate learning potential is and, as a result, we often undereducate this person.