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Unteach   Listen
verb
Unteach  v. t.  (past & past part. untaught; pres. part. unteaching)  
1.
To cause to forget, or to lose from memory, or to disbelieve what has been taught. "Experience will unteach us." "One breast laid open were a school Which would unteach mankind the lust to shine or rule."
2.
To cause to be forgotten; as, to unteach what has been learned.





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"Unteach" Quotes from Famous Books



... social life, by taking away from him the very appearance of moral discipline; by regulating from morning till night the smallest details of his day, all his movements and all his thoughts? Is not this to place him outside the conditions of existence, and to unteach him that liberty for which we pretend he is being prepared?... Assuredly, let us not forget that prisons contain incorrigible and corrupt recidivists, the residuum of large towns who must undoubtedly ...
— Crime and Its Causes • William Douglas Morrison


Words linked to "Unteach" :   learn, teach, unlearn


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