misschool

present singular third person misschools · participle present misschooling · participle past misschooled · past misschooled

1. To school improperly; to teach or train in incorrect or problematic material or by the wrong methods.

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

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

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   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.

   1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33

   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.

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

   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.

   2005, Karen Bohlin, Teaching Character Education through Literature

   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.

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