See misschool on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33:",
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"ref": "1975, Peter Marin, Vincent Stanley, Kathryn Marin, The Limits of Schooling, page 97:",
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"ref": "2005, Karen Bohlin, Teaching Character Education through Literature:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2010, Leopold Schwarzschild, Andreas P. Wesemann, Chronicle of a Downfall: Germany 1929-1939, page 211:",
"text": "But even if all this were not to come about, the nation would still be faced with the disastrous anomalies with which the political life of Germany is cursed: the fact that this nation, which has so many talents, is completely unschooled as far as practical politics is concerned and completely misschooled in political ideology.",
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