Definition of Overeducating

1. overeducate [v] - See also: overeducate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overeducating

overeasy
overeat
overeaten
overeater
overeaters
overeating
overeats
overed
overedit
overedited
overediting
overedits
overeducate
overeducated
overeducates
overeducating (current term)
overeducation
overeducations
overeffusive
overeffusively
overeffusiveness
overegg
overegged
overegging
overeggs
overelaborate
overelaborated
overelaborates
overelaborating
overelaboration

Literary usage of Overeducating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1906)
"As one of the first symptoms of overeating is drowsiness, a dulling of the sensibilities, so also in overeducating; we see that the mind loses its alertness ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"In other words, it is a question whether we are not overeducating our women athletically and mentally io the extent that we are interfering with their being ..."

3. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1881)
"overeducating THE MASSES.— There is no charge more frequently reiterated than thit the common school tends to " over- educate the masses. ..."

4. The Racial Prospect: A Re-writing and Expansion of the Author's Book "Mankind," by Seth King Humphrey (1920)
"No people can offset under- breeding with overeducating. Of all persons in the community it does seem that social workers, having so much to do with the ..."

5. Art and Industry: Education in the Industrial and Fine Arts in the United States by United States Office of Education, Isaac Edwards Clarke (1885)
"Here is a man, on the one hand, who thinks we are mining the rising generation by an excess of book learning; that we are overeducating the children of the ..."

6. Proceedings of the First Industrial Conference (called by the President by Franklin K. Lane, William Bauchop Wilson, Lathrop Brown, J. J. Cotter (1920)
"... that a set of brains was sort of like a bee gum where they put the wax and honey; and we make the mistake, or a great many people do, of overeducating ..."

7. The Philosophy of Education: With Its Practical Application to a System and by James Simpson (1836)
"Opium, use of, by working classes, 16. Oratory in the classics, 52. Orleans, academy of, 207. overeducating, notion of, 31. ..."

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