misschool

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ school

Verb

misschool (third-person singular simple present misschools, present participle misschooling, simple past and past participle misschooled)

1. To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.
   • 1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33:

     Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^[sic] aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.

   • 1975, Peter Marin, Vincent Stanley, Kathryn Marin, The Limits of Schooling, page 97:

     This will be hard for people who have for years been misschooled into thinking that life, the world, human experience, are divided up into disciplines or subjects or bodies of knowledge, some of them serious, noble, important, others ignoble and trivial.

   • 2005, Karen Bohlin, Teaching Character Education through Literature:

     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.

   • 2010, Leopold Schwarzschild, Andreas P. Wesemann, Chronicle of a Downfall: Germany 1929-1939, page 211:

     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.

   • 2014, T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War:

     Chinese troops were deliberately misschooled on their own order of battle, so that, captured, they might tell weird tales.