overeducate

overeducate

See also: over-educate

English

Alternative forms

• over-educate

Etymology

over- +‎ educate

Verb

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

1. To educate too much.
   • 1876, F. Colburn Adams, High Old Salts, page 12:

     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.

   • 1921, J. Anderson Smith, "The Foreign Field", Mother and Child, volume 2, page 373:

     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.

   • 2004, Patricia Lewin, Out of Reach, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 177:

     “You know, one thing I find particularly unpleasant about you Americans is your tendency to overeducate your women.”