pedantocracy

plural pedantocracies

1. countableuncountableGovernment by pedants.

   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.

   1980, F[rancis] W[illiam] Garforth, “Conclusion”, in Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society (University of Hull Publications), Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: […] [F]or the University of Hull by Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186

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   […] 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.

   1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 148