词组 | educationist |
释义 | educationist In British English, educationist is an ordinary word synonymous with educator: • The author is a well-known educationist who for twenty years has taught at St. Luke's College — Times Literary Supp., 2 Apr. 1970 But in American English, educationist rarely describes an actual, specific person. It most often serves instead as a term of disparagement for a stereotypically muddle-headed educational theorist, whose dubious ideas have contributed greatly—in the writer's view—to the downfall of American education: • ... the educationist is someone who can take an easy subject and make it difficult —Dr. Laurence T. Peter, The Peter Prescription, 1972 • ... English grammar has been denigrated by large numbers of influential educationists —Thomas H. Middleton, Saturday Rev., 1 Mar. 1980 Its disparaging connotations are also apparent in adjective use: • Intellectually The Greening of America resembles nothing so much as your typical educationist tractate: a stock of truism ... spiced with trivia —Samuel McCracken, Change, January-February 1971 |
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