"educanto" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword for “educanto”

Catchword: educanto

Filed under: Language, English, Subject, Education

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: What Mr. Weaver seems to care about most is spending. Or, as he calls it in pure educanto, inputs.

Article or document title:
“Throw money at it” (URL)

Article, document, publication, web site:
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Publishing location:
Little Rock

Date of publication:
Dec. 23, 2005

This catchword has yet to be researched.

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Comments:

I believe I encountered 'educanto' (derog.: the jargon of professional educators) in one of the anti-education-establishment books I read at the time I was in teacher training in the late '60s. If I had to guess, I'd say it was Paul Goodman's _Compulsory_Miseducation_, but that was a long time ago.
by Tom Kysilko 25 Dec 05, 0812 GMT

Here's a citation from 1963, Time magazine, Aug. 23, letter to the editor:

Sir: Scholars in the academic disciplines have long suspected that pretentious educationist jargon [Aug. 9] betrays a scarcity of actual content. This "educanto" seems to be a brave facade hiding a bleakness of thought, a paucity of ideas and an intellectual immaturity.

E. R. LOCKE
Orlando, Fla.

URL: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875071-4,00.html#ixzz0gfP3alvr
by Tom Kysilko 26 Feb 10, 0619 GMT