"maleducation" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From mal- + education. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mal|education}} mal- + education Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} maleducation (uncountable)
  1. Education that is faulty or incomplete. Tags: uncountable Related terms: education, maleducative, miseducation
    Sense id: en-maleducation-en-noun-H5GcNRKm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mal-

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          "ref": "1955, Nelson Louis Bossing, Principles of Secondary Education, page 212",
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          "ref": "1969, Report of Proceedings of the Commonwealth Foundation, page 7",
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          "ref": "1999, Ultramontane Associates, Culture Wars, volume 19, page 49",
          "text": "Not only is Afrocentrism spawning grotesque maleducation, multiculturalism is exacerbating racial hostilities, undoing earlier racial progress.",
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