educanto
n.— «What Mr. Weaver seems to care about most is spending. Or, as he calls it in pure educanto, inputs.» —“Throw money at it” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) Dec. 23, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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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.
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