What does overschooled mean?
Overschooled means simple past and past participle of overschool.
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simple past and past participle of overschool.
Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.; then less frequently clergymen; still less often lawyers; and more rarely doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the overschooled young of both sexes.
In that book as in this one, Horwitz assumes the pose of a baby-boomer Everyman, overschooled but undereducated.
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Overschooled means simple past and past participle of overschool.
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Next to these come merchants in general, brokers, etc.; then less frequently clergymen; still less often lawyers; and more rarely doctors; while distressing cases are apt to occur among the overschooled young of both sexes.
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