ed·u·ca·tion

(ĕj′ə-kā′shən)

1. The act or process of educating or being educated.

2. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.

3. A program of instruction of a specified kind or level: driver education; a college education.

4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.

5. An instructive or enlightening experience: Her work in an animal shelter was a real education.

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education

(ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən)

1. (Education) the act or process of acquiring knowledge, esp systematically during childhood and adolescence

2. (Education) the knowledge or training acquired by this process: his education has been invaluable to him.

3. (Education) the act or process of imparting knowledge, esp at a school, college, or university: education is my profession.

4. (Education) the theory of teaching and learning: a course in education.

5. (Education) a particular kind of instruction or training: a university education; consumer education.

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ed•u•ca•tion

(ˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən)

n.

1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge and of developing the powers of reasoning and judgment.

2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.

3. a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a college education.

4. the result produced by instruction, training, or study.

5. the science or art of teaching; pedagogics.

[1525–35; (< Middle French) < Latin]

Education

See Also: KNOWLEDGE

Alumni are like the wake of a ship; they spread out and ultimately disappear, but not until they have made a few waves —Anon
Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges —Bob Dylan
Education begins, like charity, at home —Susan Ferraro, New York Times/Hers, March 26, 1987
The charity comparison has been effectively linked with other subjects.
See Also: PATRIOTISM, PEACE, REFORM, SENSE
Education, like neurosis, begins at home —Milton R. Sapirstein
Education, like politics, is a rough affair, and every instructor has to shut his eyes and hold his tongue as though he were a priest —Henry Adams
Getting educated is like getting measles; you have to go where the measles is —Abraham Flexner
He was like an empty bucket waiting to be filled [with knowledge] —William Diehl
He who teaches a child is like one who writes on paper; but he who teaches old people is like one who writes on blotted paper —The Talmud
Human beings, like plants, can be twisted into strange shapes if their training begins early enough and is vigilantly supervised. They will accept their deformation as the natural state of affairs and even take pride in it, as Chinese women once did in their crippled feet —Milton R. Sapirstein
Sapirstein, a psychologist, used this simile to introduce a discussion about the educational impulse and its relationship to the educational process.
See Also: MANKIND
If it [learning] lights upon the mind that is dull and heavy, like a crude and undigested mass it makes it duller and heavier, and chokes it up —Michel De Montaigne
Learning in old age is like writing on sand; learning in youth is like engraving on stone —Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back —Chinese proverb
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use —William Shenstone
Learning without thought is labor lost —Confucius
Many a scholar is like a cashier: he has the key to much money, but the money is not his —Ludwig Boerne
Modern education is a contradiction. It’s like a three-year-old kid with a computer in his hand who can multiply 10.6 per cent interest of $11,653, but doesn’t know if a dime is larger or smaller than a nickel —Erma Bombeck
The need of a teacher to believe now and again that she fosters genius is like the writer’s need to believe that he is one —Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
Rolling on like a great growing snowball through the vast field of medical knowledge —William James
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language: it is not everyone that can read in it —William Hazlitt
A scholar should be like a leather bottle, which admits no wind; like a deep garden bed, which retains its moisture; like a pitch-coated vessel, which preserves its wine; and like a sponge, which absorbs everything —The Talmud
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run —Mark Twain
Students are like acorns and oaks, there’s a lot more bark to the oak and a lot more nuttiness in the acorn —Anon
Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun —William Shakespeare
Take it in like blotting paper —Mavis Gallant
See Also: ABSORBABILITY
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself —Giovanni Ruffini
Teachers, like actors, must drug themselves to be at their best —Delmore Schwartz
Teaching a class was in a way like making love. Sometimes he did it with great enthusiasm … sometimes he did it because it was expected of him, and he forced himself to go through the motions —Dan Wakefield
Teaching a fool is like gluing together a potsherd [pottery fragment] —The Holy Bible/Apocrypha
Their learning is like bread in a besieged town; every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal —Samuel Johnson
Johnson’s simile referred to his view of Scottish education.
To study and forget is like bearing children and burying them —The Talmud
To transmit wisdom to the unworthy is like throwing pearls before swine —Moses Ibn Ezra
Your education, like … carrots, is not a manufactured article, but just a seed which has grown up largely under nature’s friendly influence —William J. Long

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	education - 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" didactics, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" education - the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) classroom project - a school task requiring considerable effort classwork - the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom homework, prep, preparation - preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) lesson - a task assigned for individual study; "he did the lesson for today" coeducation - education of men and women in the same institutions continuing education - a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time course, course of instruction, course of study, class - education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" elementary education - education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school extension service, university extension, extension - an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students extracurricular activity - educational activities not falling within the scope of the regular curriculum higher education - education provided by a college or university secondary education - education beyond the elementary grades; provided by a high school or college preparatory school team teaching - a method of coordinated classroom teaching involving a team of teachers working together with a single group of students work-study program - an educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal study point system - a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules education - the gradual process of acquiring knowledge; "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's" academic program - (education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education) Department of Education, Education Department, Education - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979 tuition, tuition fee - a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education); "tuition and room and board were more than $25,000"
	2.	education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education" physical education - training in the development of and care for the human body; stresses athletics; includes hygiene experience - the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher" cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship - profound scholarly knowledge enlightenment - education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge grounding, foundation - education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge; "he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study"; "a good grounding in mathematics"
	3.	education - the gradual process of acquiring knowledge; "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's" didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching - 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" learning, acquisition - the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language" acculturation, assimilation - the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure mastering - becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of; "his mastering the art of cooking took a long time" self-cultivation, self-education - the process of educating yourself schooling, school - the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" special education - education of physically or mentally handicapped children whose needs cannot be met in an ordinary classroom vocational education, vocational training - training for a specific vocation in industry or agriculture or trade
	4.	education - the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university) profession - an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching - 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" teaching, pedagogy, instruction - the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"
	5.	education - the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" breeding, training upbringing - properties acquired during a person's formative years
	6.	Education - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979 Department of Education, Education Department didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching - 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" executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States

education

noun

1. teaching, schooling, training, development, coaching, improvement, discipline, instruction, drilling, tutoring, nurture, tuition, enlightenment, erudition, indoctrination, edification institutions for the care and education of children see academic degrees, schools, colleges and universities

2. learning, schooling, culture, breeding, scholarship, civilization, cultivation, refinement a man with little education

Quotations
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet" [Aristophanes]
"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave" [Lord Henry Brougham speech to the House of Commons]
"To live for a time close to great minds is the best education" [John Buchan Memory Hold the Door]
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another" [G.K. Chesterton]
"'Tis education forms the common mind,"
"Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined" [Alexander Pope Epistles to Several Persons]
"Education is something that tempers the young and consoles the old, gives wealth to the poor and adorns the rich" [Diogenes (The Cynic)]
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten" [B.F. Skinner Education in 1984]
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul" [Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]
"When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family" [Charles D. McIver]
"education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]
"Man is the only creature which must be educated" [Immanuel Kant]

Education terms

A bursary (N.Z.), academic, accredit (N.Z.), accumulation, Advanced level or A level (Brit.), adviser or advisor (Brit.), advisory teacher (Brit.), aegrotat (Brit.), alumnus or alumna (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), assignment, assistant (U.S. & Canad.), associate (U.S. & Canad.), baccalaureate, banding (Brit.), battels (Brit.), B bursary (N.Z.), bedder (Brit.), binary, boarder (Brit.), boarding house (Austral.), bubs grade (Austral. & N.Z. slang), bursar, bursarial, bursary or bursarship (Scot. & N.Z.), campus, campus university, catalogue (U.S. & Canad.), catchment (Brit.), Certificate of Pre-vocational Education or CPVE (Brit.), Certificate of Proficiency or COP (N.Z.), chancellor (Brit., U.S., & Canad.), chapterhouse (U.S.), class, classmate, classroom, co-ed (U.S.), coeducation, collegial, collegian, collegiate, comedown (Brit.), commencement (U.S. & Canad.), commoner (Brit.), Common Entrance (Brit.), conductive education, congregation (chiefly Brit.), continuous assessment, convocation, core subjects (Brit.), coursework, crammer, credit, crib (Brit.), cross-curricular (Brit.), Cuisenaire rod (trademark), curricular, curriculum, dean, deanery, degree, delegacy, department, detention, dissertation, docent (U.S.), dominie (Scot.), don (Brit.), donnish, dropout, dunce, dunce cap, dux, Easter term, educate, education, educational, eleven-plus (obsolete), emeritus, entry, essay, examination or exam, exercise, exhibition (Brit. & Austral.), exhibitioner (Brit.), expel, extension, external, extracurricular, extramural, faculty, fail, family grouping or vertical grouping, federal, fellow, fellowship, ferule, flunk (chiefly U.S., Canad., & N.Z. informal), fresher or freshman, full professor (U.S. & Canad.), further education (Brit.), gaudy (Brit.), General Certificate of Education or GCE (Brit.), General Certificate of Secondary Education or GCSE (Brit.), gown, grade (U.S. & Canad.), graded post (Brit.), graduand (chiefly Brit.), graduate (Brit., U.S., & Canad.), graduation, grant, grant-in-aid, grant-maintained, Great Public Schools or GPS (Austral.), Greats (Brit.), gymnasium, hall, hall of residence, headmaster or headmistress, headmastership or headmistress-ship, headship (Brit.), higher (Scot.), high school, Hilary term, homework, honours or (U.S.) honors, hood, hooky or hookey (chiefly U.S., Canad., & N.Z. informal), house, housefather, housemaster, housemother, imposition (Brit.), incept (Brit.), infant (Brit.), in residence, instructor (U.S. & Canad.), internal, interscholastic, intramural (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), invigilate (Brit.), invigilator (Brit.), janitor (Scot.), jig (Austral. slang), junior, junior common room, key stage (Brit.), lecture, lecturer, level of attainment (Brit.), liaison officer (N.Z.), lines, literae humaniores (Brit.), LMS or local management of schools (Brit.), local examinations, lowerclassman (U.S.), lower school, lycée (chiefly French), manciple, marking, master, matriculate, matriculation or matric, mature student, Michaelmas term, middle common room, midterm, mistress, mitch or mich (dialect), mocks (informal), moderator (Brit. & N.Z.), muck-up day (Austral. slang), National Curriculum (Brit.), Nuffield teaching project (Brit.), open learning, Ordinary grade or O grade (Scot.), Ordinary level or O level (Brit.), Ordinary National Certificate or ONC (Brit.), pandy (chiefly Scot. & Irish), parent teacher association or PTA, parietal (U.S.), pass, pedant (archaic), pipe (U.S. slang), porter, postgraduate, prefect (Brit.), prelims (Scot.), prepositor (Brit., rare), primers (N.Z. informal), principal, Privatdocent, proctor (U.S.), professor, professoriate, prospectus, provost, punishment exercise, reader (chiefly Brit.), readership (chiefly Brit.), reception (Brit.), recess (U.S. & Canad.), record of achievement (Brit.), recreation, rector (chiefly Brit.), redbrick (Brit.), refresher course, regent, registrar, Regius professor (Brit.), remedial, remove (Brit.), report (Brit.), resit, rusticate (Brit.), sabbatical, sandwich course, SCE or Scottish Certificate of Education, scholastic, School Certificate (Brit. old-fashioned & N.Z.), schoolleaver, schoolman, schoolmarm, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, schoolteacher, second (Brit.), self-educated, semester (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), seminar, senate, send down, senior, senior common room, session, set, shell (Brit.), sixth form (Brit.), sixth-form college (Brit.), sizar (Brit.), sophomore (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), sorority (chiefly U.S.), speech day (Brit.), sports day (Brit.), stage, Standard Grade (Scot.), standard assessment tasks or SATS (Brit.), statement (Brit.), stream (Brit.), student teacher, subject, subprincipal, summa cum laude, summative assessment (Brit.), supervisor, teach-in, term, tertiary bursary (Brit.), test, thesis, transcript (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), transfer, trimester (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), Trinity term, truant, tuition, tutee, tutor, tutorial, tutorial system, union, university entrance (examination) or UE (N.Z.), undergraduate, unstreamed (Brit.), upper school, vice chancellor (Brit.), visiting professor, wag (slang), warden (Brit.), wrangler (Brit.), year

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education

noun

1. The act, process, or art of imparting knowledge and skill:

instruction, pedagogics, pedagogy, schooling, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring.

2. Known facts, ideas, and skill that have been imparted:

erudition, instruction, knowledge, learning, scholarship, science.

Translations

تَعْلِيمتَعْليم، ثَقافَه

vzdělánívzdělávání

uddannelseundervisning

Ausbildung Bildung Erziehung Pädagogik Schulung

εκπαίδευση παιδεία

educación

koulutuskasvatus

éducation enseignement études formation

izobrazbanaobrazbaobrazovanješkolovanje

menntun, fræîsla

istruzione educazione insegnamento scolarità creanza

教育

교육

onderwijs

utdanning opplæring undervisning utdannelse

edukacja wykształcenie

educação

образование обучение

vzdelanie

izobrazbaizobraževanje

utbildning

การศึกษา

eğitim

giáo dục

教育

education

[ˌedjʊˈkeɪʃən]

A. N → educación f, formación f; (= teaching) → enseñanza f; (= knowledge, culture) → cultura f; (= studies) → estudios mpl; (= training) → formación f (Univ) (= subject) → pedagogía f
Ministry of Education → Ministerio m or (LAm) Secretaría f de Educación
primary/secondary education → enseñanza f primaria/secundaria, primera/segunda enseñanza f
higher education → educación f superior, enseñanza f superior
physical/political education → educación f física/política
literary/professional education → formación f literaria/profesional
there should be more investment in education → debería invertirse más dinero en educación
she works in education → trabaja en la enseñanza
I never had much education → pasé poco tiempo en la escuela
they paid for his education → le pagaron los estudios

B. CPD education authority N (Brit) → delegación f de educación, consejería f de educación (Sp)
education department N (Brit) [of local authority] → departamento m de educación; (= ministry) → Ministerio m de Educación

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education

[ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃ^ən]

(provided by schools) → éducation f
There should be more investment in education → On devrait investir plus dans l'éducation.
a man with little education → un homme peu instruit
a child's education → l'éducation d'un enfant primary education, elementary education, secondary education

(= teaching) → enseignement m, instruction f
She works in education → Elle travaille dans l'enseignement.

(= subject) → pédagogie f

modif [budget, reform, department, minister] → de l'éducation; [centre, programme, policy] → d'éducation

education

n → Erziehung f; (= studies, training) → Ausbildung f; (= knowledge, culture) → Bildung f; Ministry of Education → Ministerium nt → für Erziehung und Unterricht, Kultusministerium nt; lecturer in education → Dozent(in) m(f) → für Pädagogik; College of Education → pädagogische Hochschule; (for graduates) → Studienseminar nt; (local) education authority → Schulbehörde f; to study education → Pädagogik or Erziehungswissenschaften studieren; if the government neglects education → wenn die Regierung das Erziehungs- und Ausbildungswesen vernachlässigt; the education budget → der Etat für das Erziehungs- und Ausbildungswesen; education is free → die Schulausbildung ist kostenlos; his education was interrupted → seine Ausbildung wurde unterbrochen; to get an education → eine Ausbildung bekommen; the education he received at school → seine Schulbildung; she had a university education → sie hatte eine Universitätsausbildung; a literary/scientific education → eine literarische/naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; she had little education → sie war ziemlich ungebildet

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education

[ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃ/ən] n (schooling) → istruzione f; (teaching) → insegnamento; (knowledge, culture) → cultura; (studies) → studi mpl; (training) → formazione f (Univ) (subject) → pedagogia
Ministry of Education → Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione
primary education (Am) elementary education → scuola elementare or primaria
secondary education → scuola secondaria
physical education → educazione f fisica

educate

(ˈedjukeit) verb

to train and teach. He was educated at a private school.

ˌeduˈcation noun

instruction and teaching, especially of children and young people in schools, universities etc. His lack of education prevented him from getting a good job.

ˌeduˈcational adjective

1. of education. educational methods.

2. providing information. Our visit to the zoo was educational as well as enjoyable.

ˌeduˈcation(al)ist noun

an expert in methods of educating.

education

→ تَعْلِيم vzdělání uddannelse Bildung εκπαίδευση educación koulutus éducation školovanje istruzione 教育 교육 onderwijs utdannelse edukacja educação образование utbildning การศึกษา eğitim giáo dục 教育

ed·u·ca·tion

n. educación, enseñanza;

medical ___ → ___ médica.

education

n educación f; diabetic — educación diabetológica (form), educación en diabetes; sex — educación sexual