overeducate

Verb

overeducate (third-person singular simple present overeducates, present participle overeducating, simple past and past participle overeducated)

1. To educate too much.
   • You cannot overeducate the man you place in charge of a steam engine on board of a ship, and on whose judgment and skill a thousand valuable lives, to say nothing of property, may depend.1876, F. Colburn Adams, High Old Salts, page 12
   • They are drilled and attend school on the premises, being taught by a capable mistress who understands their disabilities, and does not overeducate them, and yet tries to prevent their minds becoming fallow.1921, J. Anderson Smith, “The Foreign Field”, in Mother and Child, volume 2, page 373