miseducation
noun
mis·ed·u·ca·tion
ˌmis-ˌe-jə-ˈkā-shən 
plural miseducations
: poor, wrong, or harmful education
… it's getting easier to blame the miseducation of poor students solely on lack of discipline.—
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These lessons also gave them awareness and knowledge of the media’s influence in shaping realities, the dangers of miseducation, and the ways misinformation could undermine Black self-determination.
—Mickell Carter / Made By History, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
The Bookshelf The Bookshelf A tribute to Buckley’s evangelism for music, a warning against miseducation of America’s elites, and a memoir of Churchill’s youth and early military campaigns.
—Katherine Howell, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
And in a time of immense and increased polarization on teaching LGBTQ history in schools, Storey’s experience, and his subsequent artistic practice, offers a unique window into a world of miseducation and representation.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
My own life suggests a possible answer: the intentional and systematic miseducation of Jews in America.
—Jill Gurvey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
But as noted during the event, it’s shrouded in miseducation here in the U.S. and has been since physicians, male physicians at that, started to be touted as the preferred people to deliver babies.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 22 Apr. 2024
Yet the third form of colonialism, the one that seems to pervade the film’s entire substance, is the insidious and ongoing campaign of cultural oblivion, the evaporation of memory and dissolution of history in the daily American media onslaught and the officialized miseducation that accompanies it.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
Mental health stigma can also lead to Blacks repressing their symptoms and miseducation about mental illness and suicide — suggesting that Black people do not experience either.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 28 May 2022
Woodson abandoned two prestigious academic leadership roles to focus on funding and leading an association dedicated to ending miseducation for good.
—Byellen McGirt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
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Mickell Carter / Made By History, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
The Bookshelf The Bookshelf A tribute to Buckley’s evangelism for music, a warning against miseducation of America’s elites, and a memoir of Churchill’s youth and early military campaigns.
—Katherine Howell, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025
And in a time of immense and increased polarization on teaching LGBTQ history in schools, Storey’s experience, and his subsequent artistic practice, offers a unique window into a world of miseducation and representation.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
My own life suggests a possible answer: the intentional and systematic miseducation of Jews in America.
—Jill Gurvey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
But as noted during the event, it’s shrouded in miseducation here in the U.S. and has been since physicians, male physicians at that, started to be touted as the preferred people to deliver babies.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 22 Apr. 2024
Yet the third form of colonialism, the one that seems to pervade the film’s entire substance, is the insidious and ongoing campaign of cultural oblivion, the evaporation of memory and dissolution of history in the daily American media onslaught and the officialized miseducation that accompanies it.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
Mental health stigma can also lead to Blacks repressing their symptoms and miseducation about mental illness and suicide — suggesting that Black people do not experience either.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 28 May 2022
Woodson abandoned two prestigious academic leadership roles to focus on funding and leading an association dedicated to ending miseducation for good.
—Byellen McGirt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
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“Miseducation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/miseducation. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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