maleducation

English

Etymology

From mal- +‎ education.

Noun

maleducation (uncountable)

1. Education that is faulty or incomplete.
   • 1955, Nelson Louis Bossing, Principles of Secondary Education, page 212:

     Far more important than correcting faulty education resulting from the activities of the nonschool educative agencies is preventing, where possible, such maleducation from taking place.

   • 1969, Report of Proceedings of the Commonwealth Foundation, page 7:

     Education is a continuous process which, unless maintained, soon lapses into the state of maleducation. There are many people who have had the benefit of university education, who are today living specimens of maleducation because they have ceased to educate themselves.

   • 1999, Ultramontane Associates, Culture Wars, volume 19, page 49:

     Not only is Afrocentrism spawning grotesque maleducation, multiculturalism is exacerbating racial hostilities, undoing earlier racial progress.

Related terms

• education
• maleducative

See also

• miseducation