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pedantocracy

noun

Etymology

From pedant + -ocracy.

  1. derived from pedante — “a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”
  2. borrowed from pedant
  3. suffixed as pedantocracy — “pedant + ocracy”

Definitions

  1. Government by pedants.

    • […] 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.
    • 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.

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