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deschooled

deschooled is the simple past and past participle of deschool.

Meaning of deschool

Verb

deschool (third-person singular simple present deschools, present participle deschooling, simple past and past participle deschooled)

  1. (transitive) To remove the schools from; to divest (a society) of its formal education system.
    • In Illich's deschooled society, schools would continue to exist but on non-compulsory basis.2007, Michael Kuhn, New society models for a new millennium, page 305

Questions about deschooled

What is deschooled the simple past and past participle of?
Deschooled is the simple past and past participle of deschool.

Words near deschooled in the dictionary

  1. deschedule
  2. descheduled
  3. deschedules
  4. descheduling
  5. deschool
  6. deschooled
  7. deschooler
  8. deschoolers
  9. deschooling
  10. deschools
  11. Deschutes

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