undereducate

present singular third person undereducates · participle present undereducating · participle past undereducated · past undereducated

1. transitiveTo provide an inadequate education.

   Throughout this decade, education must be increasingly upgraded and relevant. To fail to identify important human and societal needs is to undereducate students.

   1984, Hershel D. Thornburg, Introduction to Educational Psychology, page 509

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   A basic problem with the educable mentally retarded person is that we still do not know what his ultimate learning potential is and, as a result, we often undereducate this person.

   1986, Les Sternberg, Ronald L. Taylor, Jeffrey Schilit, So You're Not a Special Educator