Education
[edjʊ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛdʒu'keʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university).
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); 'a woman of breeding and refinement'.
(noun.) the gradual process of acquiring knowledge; 'education is a preparation for life'; 'a girl's education was less important than a boy's'.
(noun.) knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; 'it was clear that he had a very broad education'.
Checker: Max--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.
Typist: Rudy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Training, teaching, schooling, instruction, discipline, cultivation, tuition, nurture, breeding, EDIFICATION, drilling.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are anxious to obtain an education, shows that whatever your circumstances in life may be there will be a keen desire for knowledge on your part, which will place you on a higher plane than your associates. Fortune will also be more lenient to you. To dream that you are in places of learning, foretells for you many influential friends.
Editor: Lucius
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Examples
- Who, then, shall conduct education so that humanity may improve? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. Plato. The Republic.
- My education was a mistake. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And education is not a mere means to such a life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Their habits and their dwellings should correspond to their education. Plato. The Republic.
- In 1749 he drew up proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania, which led, two years later, to the esta blishment of the first American Academy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of the democratic ideas in education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. Plato. The Republic.
- We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- George remained four years at a French university, and, applying himself with an unintermitted zeal, obtained a very thorough education. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Since the supply is small, induce to begin this study youths of about eig hteen years of age who are already acquainted with the sciences required in a general education. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It contains as fundamental truths as have been uttered about education in conjunction with a curious twist. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is a conception of education which professes to be based upon the idea of development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But if women are to have the same employments as men, they must have the same education--they must be taught music and gymnastics, and the art of war. Plato. The Republic.
- The education which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastic. Plato. The Republic.
- Their parents had been able to support them during their minority, and to give them good educations, but not to maintain them afterwards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the multitude of educations education is forgotten. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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