misschool
misschool verb: to school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.
Verb
misschool (third-person singular simple present misschools, present participle misschooling, simple past and past participle misschooled)
- To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.
- Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33
- This will be hard for people who have for years been misschooled into thinking that life, the world, human experience, are divided up into disciplines or subjects or bodies of knowledge, some of them serious, noble, important, others ignoble and trivial.1975, Peter Marin, Vincent Stanley, Kathryn Marin, The Limits of Schooling, page 97
Examples of misschool in a sentence
- Gatsby has schooled his desires in the wrong things; we could say that they are misschooled, misdirected by his ambition to create a vision of himself and the world that is out of sync with reality.2005, Karen Bohlin, Teaching Character Education through Literature:
- Chinese troops were deliberately misschooled on their own order of battle, so that, captured, they might tell weird tales.2014, T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War:
Forms of misschool
| third-person singular present | misschools |
|---|---|
| present participle | misschooling |
| past participle | misschooled |
| past | misschooled |
Origin of misschool
From mis- + school.
Questions about misschool
- What does misschool mean?
- Misschool means to school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.
- How do you use misschool in a sentence?
- Gatsby has schooled his desires in the wrong things; we could say that they are misschooled, misdirected by his ambition to create a vision of himself and the world that is out of sync with reality.
- What part of speech is misschool?
- Misschool is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misschool?
- The past tense of misschool is misschooled.
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