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- verb To
educate too much.
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Examples
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S. Bear Bergman is an author of two books (Butch Is a Noun, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You) and three award-winning solo stage shows, a storyteller, a gender-jammer, and a good example of what happens when you overeducate a contrarian.
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Many argued that there was no point, since such courses would simply overeducate a woman for her true calling as wife and mother.
Girls Gone Studious 2007
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Many argued that there was no point, since such courses would simply overeducate a woman for her true calling as wife and mother.
Girls Gone Studious 2007
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Many argued that there was no point, since such courses would simply overeducate a woman for her true calling as wife and mother.
Girls Gone Studious 2007
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Many argued that there was no point, since such courses would simply overeducate a woman for her true calling as wife and mother.
Girls Gone Studious 2007
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