pedantocracy

English

Etymology

From pedant +‎ -ocracy.[1]

Noun

pedantocracy (countable and uncountable, plural pedantocracies)

  1. Government by pedants.
    • 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty‎[1], page 148:
      […] 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.
    • 1980, F[rancis] W[illiam] Garforth, “Conclusion”, in Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society (University of Hull Publications), Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: […] [F]or the University of Hull by Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186:
      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.

See also

  • Appendix:Forms of government

References

  1. ^ “pedantocracy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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