to miseducate

Examples

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• To fully embrace the educational gains possible through effective music experiences in early childhood development, educators must be aware of the risks of miseducating students by expecting them to perform tasks that require skills for which they are not developmentally ready (Andress, 1986).

  Academic text (2013)

• Many social media influencers can miseducate their followers by spreading inaccurate health information.

• I think most of most of us are really, I think unfortunately miseducated and we're taught to delude ourselves.

  Film Courage

• The kid's parents have grossly miseducated him, and not just about cancer treatment.

  Blog text (8)

• People do not own their children, and should emphatically not have a right to educate (or miseducate) them.

  Blog text (21)

• People do not own their children, and should emphatically not have a right to educate (or miseducate) them any way they wish.

  Blog text (21)

• The role of pollsters and the news media in constitutionally miseducating the people on this matter is massive.

  Academic text (2003)

• The economic fallacy of mercantilism is that the public must be intentionally miseducated in economics for it to survive, which has been a work in progress ever since the Federal Reserve usurped our constitutional monetary system in 1913.

  Blog text (12)

• There will be "a new form of discrimination in the 21st century," said Manning Marable of Columbia University, "a division between the educational haves and the uneducated or miseducated... have nots."

  Academic text (1995)

• The teachers were concerned that outdated textbooks might miseducate their students about important historical events.

Synonyms

M

to mislead

vsto miseducate

87 3.9

Make someone believe something that is not true

focuses on teaching wrong or harmful information rather than only causing belief

M

to misinform

vsto miseducate

35 4.8

To give someone wrong information, often by mistake

involves teaching wrong information that affects what people learn

M

to misdirect

vsto miseducate

5 6.0

To send someone the wrong way or give wrong directions

covers teaching wrong information rather than physical or directional misrouting

M

to misguide

vsto miseducate

1 4.3

To give someone wrong advice or directions that lead them to make mistakes

is about teaching wrong information, not only guiding or advising mistakes

M

to misteach

vsto miseducate

7.2

Give someone wrong information when explaining something

causes wrong, misleading, or harmful information to be learned

Antonyms

E

to educate

627 2.2

To give someone knowledge and skills by teaching or training over time

How Incorrect

to brainwash

118 7.3

to indoctrinate

31 8.1

to miseducate

1 8.1

to mislead

87 3.9

to misinform

35 4.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology