What does undereducate mean?
Undereducate means (transitive) To provide an inadequate education..
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(transitive) To provide an inadequate education..
Throughout this decade, education must be increasingly upgraded and relevant. To fail to identify important human and societal needs is to undereducate students.
A basic problem with the educable mentally retarded person is that we still do not know what his ultimate learning potential is and, as a result, we often undereducate this person.
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Undereducate means (transitive) To provide an inadequate education..
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Throughout this decade, education must be increasingly upgraded and relevant. To fail to identify important human and societal needs is to undereducate students.
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