Meaning of pedantocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

Government by pedants.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“[…] if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.”

“Bureaucracy too, in education as elsewhere (perhaps especially in education) was prone to pedantocracy and to slow strangulation in the toils of its own immutable maxims.”

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