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Synonyms for education
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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. education

    Education (Latin educere, to lead or draw out) is the systematic development and cultivation of the mind and other natural powers. "Education is the harmonious development of all our faculties. It begins in the nursery, and goes on at school, but does not end there. It continues through life, whether we will or not.... 'Every person,' says Gibbon, 'has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.'" John Lubbock The Use of Life ch. vii, p. 111. [Macmillan & Co. '94.] Instruction, the impartation of knowledge by others (Latin instruere, to build in or into) is but a part of education, often the smallest part. Teaching is the more familiar and less formal word for instruction. Training refers not merely to the impartation of knowledge, but to the exercising of one in actions with the design to form habits. Discipline is systematic and rigorous training, with the idea of subjection to authority and perhaps of punishment. Tuition is the technical term for teaching as the business of an instructor or as in the routine of a school; tuition is narrower than teaching, not, like the latter word, including training. Study is emphatically what one does for himself. We speak of the teaching, training, or discipline, but not of the education or tuition of a dog or a horse. Breeding and nurture include teaching and training, especially as directed by and dependent upon home life and personal association; breeding having reference largely to manners with such qualities as are deemed distinctively characteristic of high birth; nurture (literally nourishing) having more direct reference to moral qualities, not overlooking the physical and mental. Knowledge and learning tell nothing of mental development apart from the capacity to acquire and remember, and nothing whatever of that moral development which is included in education in its fullest and noblest sense; learning, too, may be acquired by one's unaided industry, but any full education must be the result in great part of instruction, training, and personal association. Study is emphatically what one does for himself, and in which instruction and tuition can only point the way, encourage the student to advance, and remove obstacles; vigorous, persevering study is one of the best elements of training. Study is also used in the sense of the thing studied, a subject to be mastered by study, a studious pursuit. Compare KNOWLEDGE; REFINEMENT; WISDOM.

    Compare synonyms for IGNORANT.

    Synonyms:
    breeding, cultivation, culture, development, discipline, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, nurture, reading, schooling, study, teaching, training, tuition

    Antonyms:
    ignorance, illiteracy

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activitynoun

    the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

    "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"

    Synonyms:
    precept, statement, command, didactics, teaching method, breeding, teaching, program line, pedagogics, educational activity, pedagogy, direction, training, instruction, commandment

  2. educationnoun

    knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

    "it was clear that he had a very broad education"

    Synonyms:
    training, educational activity, teaching, breeding, pedagogy, instruction, didactics

  3. educationnoun

    the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

    "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's"

    Synonyms:
    training, educational activity, teaching, breeding, pedagogy, instruction, didactics

  4. educationnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    training, educational activity, teaching, breeding, pedagogy, instruction, didactics

  5. education, training, breedingnoun

    the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

    "a woman of breeding and refinement"

    Synonyms:
    instruction, rearing, breeding, nurture, facts of life, educational activity, gentility, teaching, preparation, reproduction, training, bringing up, procreation, raising, didactics, fosterage, fostering, grooming, upbringing, pedagogy, genteelness

  6. Department of Education, Education Department, Educationnoun

    the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

    Synonyms:
    training, educational activity, teaching, breeding, pedagogy, instruction, didactics

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. eko

    the word eko means education in an african language. widely used. relevant.

    Submitted by anonymous on February 24, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. educationnoun

    Synonyms:
    training, teaching, schooling, instruction, discipline, cultivation, tuition, nurture, breeding, EDIFICATION, drilling

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. educationnoun

    Synonyms:
    culture, learning, schooling, tuition, scholarship, nurture, enlightenment, literacy

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How to use education in a sentence?

  1. Martin Sosa:

    I am grateful to this government because it gave us back our dignity by helping the poor. It gave us work, opened factories, improved access to public education and healthcare, i am worried Macri will undo all this. He represents wealthy people.

  2. John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914:

    Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.

  3. Alaa Khojaly:

    Democracy does not mean only freedom. If it comes, we believe we will have a higher grade of education, better healthcare, these children are not receiving education and healthcare. So instead of letting them run loose among the protesters every day, we are trying to provide enjoyable and educational activities for them in our tent.

  4. Lily Eskelsen Garcia:

    The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a political ploy to silence public employees like teachers, school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, higher education faculty and other educators to work together to shape their profession.

  5. Nina Smith:

    Petes Douglass Plan, which was developed with black leaders and activists, would make unprecedented investments in entrepreneurship, education, homeownership, healthand justice, pete knows it is not enough to simply replace racist policies with neutral ones; he is campaigning on the need to make intentionally anti-racist investments. Pete also knows it is not enough to simply beat Donald Trump; we need to elect someone who will pick up the pieces and bring this nation back together. The contrast will be very clear when Pete stands across from Donald Trump on the debate stage next fall.


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