Example Sentences

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The overeducation of the poor is a heartless thing.

From As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home by Gratton, Henry Pearson

Luther Burbank, in an article on "The Training of the Human Plant," says: The curse of modern child life in America is overeducation, overconfinement, overrestraint.

From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.