"pedantocracy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 148:",
          "text": "[…] if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.",
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          "text": "Bureaucracy too, in education as elsewhere (perhaps especially in education) was prone to pedantocracy and to slow strangulation in the toils of its own immutable maxims.",
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