Misschool

Quick meaning: Misschool is a verb meaning To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.

Meaning

To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.

Example Sentences

Chinese troops were deliberately misschooled on their own order of battle, so that, captured, they might tell weird tales.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• misschools
• misschooling
• misschooled

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