misprepare

present singular third person misprepares · participle present mispreparing · participle past misprepared · past misprepared

1. To prepare badly; to provide inadequate or inappropriate preparation.

   To do otherwise is to ignore the bounties of technology—a culpable neglect—and to misprepare her for life and work after school.

   2015, Rand J. Spiro, Michael DeSchryver, Michelle Schira Hagerman, Reading at a Crossroads?

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   Concluding, the paper presents a context of teacher preparation with an emphasis on techniques and standards that tends to misprepare teachers in addressing the needs of an increasingly immigrant student population.

   2003, Neal A. Glasgow, Cathy D. Hicks, What Successful Teachers Do, page 119

   In this respect, then, our schools essentially mislead and misprepare students by developing and rewarding a set of skills that will be important in later life, but much less important than they are in school.

   2018, Karl H. Pribram, Brain and Values: Is A Biological Science of Values Possible?

   Affluent societies routinely over-, under-, and misprepare without even recognizing them as failures, just as no one cares that a spice shelf holds an undisturbed jar of cream of tartar that will be a silent witness as we marry, we have children, and then our children have grandchildren who one day ask, "What's that dusty bottle of white powder for, Gramps?"

   2019, David Weinberger, Everyday Chaos