Educated

Examples

• He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Comintern had educated them there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The more prosperous landlords went to England to live, and had their children educated there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a difference amongst them as amongst the educated; and when I got to know them, and they me, this difference rapidly developed itself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Well, I wish they were educated enough to tell a man a direction that goes some where--for we've been going around in a circle for an hour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Youths are brought to him to be educated, and the whole character of his life has changed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We must set our face against all this educating, elevating talk, that is getting about now; the lower class must not be educated. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Marriage was a public institution: and the women were educated by the State, and sang and danced in public with the men. Plato. The Republic.
• But being in company with the brother of a doosed fine gal--well educated too--with no biggodd nonsense about her--at the period alluded to--' 'There! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• President Diaz, of Mexico, visited this country with Mrs. Diaz, a highly educated and beautiful woman. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The nomadic instinct can not be educated out of an Indian at all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the pupils were not so well educated as the master. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Those men in Washington, most of them lawyers, are so educated that they are practically incapable of meeting a new condition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That is past praying for, said Augustine; educated they will be, and we have only to say how. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Plato. The Republic.
• These are educated people--not like that absurd boatman. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is democratic machinery with an educated citizenship behind it that embodies all the fears of the conservative and the hopes of the radical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It would be very interesting for a professor to be educated. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Very few of them are educated altogether at their own expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But we are educated people, and have lived amongst educated people. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A highly educated man cost very little more than a workman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had traveled a great deal, and was an unusually well-educated man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Their son, Percival, had been born abroad, and had been educated there by private tutors. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Graham was a beauty; a very Apollo in form, with handsome features, particularly his teeth and eyes; sensible too, and well educated. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Not that Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a sylph caught young and educated at Mrs. Lemon's. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My uncle had an idea of his being educated as an advocate, that through his interest he might become a judge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He had to be educated--if only to secure industrial efficiency. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Brent