deschool

English

Etymology

de- +‎ school

Verb

deschool (third-person singular simple present deschools, present participle deschooling, simple past and past participle deschooled)

1. (transitive) To remove the schools from; to divest (a society) of its formal education system.
   • 2007, Michael Kuhn, New society models for a new millennium, page 305:

     In Illich's deschooled society, schools would continue to exist but on non-compulsory basis.

Related terms

• deschooling

Anagrams

• choodles, locoshed, schooled