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/ˌɛdʒəkˈeɪʃən/ /ˌɛdʒjukˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Education

noun

The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill. Synonyms: didactics, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching. "Our instruction was carefully programmed" , "Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"

Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction.

The gradual process of acquiring knowledge. "A girl's education was less important than a boy's"

The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university).

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior). Synonyms: breeding, training.

The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979. Synonyms: Department of Education, Education Department.

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"Education" Quotes from Famous Books

... environment which did not offer him any temptation to commit crime. Again, are not many predisposed toward insanity without ever becoming insane? If the same individual were to live under unfavorable conditions, without any education, if he were to find himself in unhealthy telluric surroundings, in a mine, a rice field, or a miasmatic swamp, he would become insane. But if instead of living in conditions that condemn him to lunacy he were to be under no necessity ...

— The Positive School of Criminology - Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 • Enrico Ferri

... contains the detailed account of my seances, and will, I trust, prove an additional source of information and education on ...

— The Come Back • Carolyn Wells

... self-recording creatures are permitted at least to seem to change the subject, apparently nobody cares what I think of the tariff, the conservation of our natural resources, or the conflicts which revolve about the name of Dreyfus. If I offer to reform the education system of the world, my editorial friends say, "That is interesting. But will you please tell us what idea you had of goodness and beauty when you were six years old?" First they ask me to tell the life of the child who is mother to the woman. Then they make me my ...

— The World I Live In • Helen Keller

... community, not of the indolent and solitary anchorite, which to Basil was the perfection of Christianity. . . . The indiscriminate charity of these institutions was to receive orphans" (of which there were but too many in those evil days) "of all classes, for education and maintenance: but other children only with the consent or at the request of parents, certified before witnesses; and vows were by no means to be enforced upon these youthful pupils. Slaves who fled to the monasteries were to be admonished and sent back ...

— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley

... does n't go to college till he wins with that horse," said Mr. Newby, "he is likely to find his education abbreviated." ...

— Bred In The Bone - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page

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