Lexicographical Neighbors of Overeducate
Literary usage of Overeducate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1881)
"If our many theorists will study this subject at first-hand, they •will learn,
not that the schools overeducate the masses, but merely another confirmation ..."
2. Genetic Philosophy of Education: An Epitome of the Published Educatonal by George Everett Partridge, Granville Stanley Hall (1912)
"They overeducate by methods of passive learning, and do not prepare for the work
of specialisation by keeping alive the spirit of enquiry. ..."
3. Regional Conferences in Latin America (1917)
"America to attempt to overeducate leaders and as a consequence much evangelical
work has been fossilized. The location of a training-school is important. ..."
4. Annual Report of the Governor of Puerto Rico by Puerto Rico Governor (1902)
"Care has to be taken not to overeducate the children in the scholastic department
as well as in their mode of life, thereby unfitting them for the sphere of ..."
5. The Inland Educator by Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms (1900)
"In America there is no such idea as that you can overeducate a man, but here one
finds the idea like a pestilence." Another- Englishman, Thomas Burns, ..."
6. Books in Their Seasons by Annie Russell Marble (1905)
"The tendency of the present day is to overeducate the critical faculties, on the
censorious bias, and to undervalue the powers of appreciation and joy. ..."
7. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1888)
"With table IV. before us, it cannot be held, as some profess to hold, that the
tendency of the system is to overeducate the masses. ..."
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