A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from September 21, 2012
Educamation (jocular spelling of “education”)

“Educamation” is a jocular spelling for the word “education.” “Educamation” has been cited in print since at least 1998 and does not appear to have any obvious author.
 
Other humorous misspellings of “education” include “edjamacation,” “educashun,” “educayshun” and “edumacation.”
     
 
Wiktionary: educamation
Noun
educamation
(uncountable)
1. (chiefly humorous) Mistaken form of education
   
Google Groups: alt.support.crossdressing
(unknown)
1/31/98
(...)
Sum educamation you getted!
     
Google Groups: alt.devilbunnies
SnowShoe
1/16/99
(...)
Wow, he gotses hims a college educamation!
     
Google Groups: soc.culture.filipino
Diego San Juan Bautista Nabuang
8/31/99
Since I’ve been trolling, I ‘ve noticed that we’re not really into educamation.
     
Acoustic Guitar Forum
raulb
12-17-2008, 05:18 PM
Bad Educamation
 
Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies
The End of Education
Ben Goertzel
Cosmist Manifesto
June 26, 2010
(...)
COMMENTS
Posted by Educamation on 06/27 at 10:09 AM
The education that matters will transition from the school to the workplace.
(...)
Posted by Richard Eskow on 06/28 at 01:26 PM
PS:  Congratulations to commenter “Educamation” for what appears to be a Dr. John reference.  The word appears in his song “I’m Qualified,” whose premise might appear to John Holt—you don’t need a degree to be qualified for some things.
(The 1973 Dr. John song “Qualified” has “edumacation,” not “educamation”—ed.)
 
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Squirrels Beat Me in the Educamation System
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Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityEducation/Schools • Friday, September 21, 2012 • Permalink


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