co-educatev.
Originally U.S.
transitive. To educate (persons of both sexes) together, or (one of either sex) with those of the other under a co-educational system. Also transferred.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > [verb (transitive)] > systems of education
home-educate1849
co-educate1855
vocationalize1905
comprehensivize1958
home-school1981
1855 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. 3 201 Another enumerates the great number of schools where the sexes are co-educated.
1894 Forum July 582 Will the Co-Educated Co-Educate their Children?
1897 Educat. Rev. XIII. 62 Sight, hearing and touch all have to be developed and trained and co-educated, taught to act together.
1909 H. G. Wells Ann Veronica i. 8 He had one son, who had been co-educated.
1928 Daily Express 25 Aug. 8/3 If we could co-educate the younger generations of Europe we could co-ordinate them in a union of sympathy, understanding, and comradeship.
a1936 G. K. Chesterton Common Man (1950) 141 Co-educate as much as you like, there will always be a wall between the sexes.
Derivatives
co-ˈeducator n.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > [noun] > systematic education > systems of > advocates of
Philanthropinist1842
examinationist1856
modernist1856
Pestalozzian1859
secularist1872
Froebelian1873
modernizer1889
universitarianism1889
Arnoldian1904
anthroposophist1916
co-educator1920
progressive1930
Montessorian1934
outward-bounder1961
1920 T. P. Nunn Education xv. 203 Co-educators aim..at purifying and strengthening the bases of family life by teaching boys and girls to know one another.
a1936 G. K. Chesterton Common Man (1950) 143 It is..a question of what are really the co-educators' aims.
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