Word: subverter
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...other hand, if the government established a national educational board, it would not have to control national learning. As under the Committee's present plan, direct control of appropriations would not necessitate control of what is taught. There is little danger that the government will, or can, subvert the public school curriculum which is the same throughout the nation by withholding funds from some, subsidizing others. In the one case, therefore, in which the Roosevelt administration can make good use of federal efficiency, it seems to be abandoning it for political policy...
Harvard's system concentration eliminates the "department store" of some universities. But at the same time this system presents the danger of concentration for concentration's sake; in time the presence of too many students in the social sciences may subvert Harvard's current idea of education to that of a vocational school. The theory of education here transcends the social sciences; in doing so, it does bring students here to be educated, and, contrary to Mr. Foerster, to a certain indefinable extent every student who graduates is educated...
...modern election," he continued, "is a sincere expression of insincerity. The Teachers' Oath, for example, is the most colossal farce. An honest man is not honest if he goes about telling people he is; furthermore, if any one really wanted to subvert the government, he would take the oath ten times...
...accuse him," shouted Minister Maura, "of an alliance with the Communists* in an attempt to subvert the army until the officers had to sleep in the Tablada Airdrome in Seville with revolvers under their pillows...
Clearly this measure would subvert a very foundation stone of aristocracy. If the rabbits of a duke are to be "reduced" upon mere complaint by an adjacent farmer, the sanctity of dukedoms totters in the balance...