Schooling
['skuːlɪŋ] or ['skulɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of teaching at school.
(noun.) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage).
Editor: Pratt--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of School
(n.) Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
(n.) Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.
(n.) Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
(a.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Inputed by Bennett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tuition, instruction, education, teaching, training, nurture, discipline.
Editor: Nicolas
Examples
- There are such schools but thou dost not need that schooling. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His only schooling was received in an elementary insti tution in Oxfordshire. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Everything that makes schooling merely preparatory (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I have never been unfaithful to you or your schooling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My schooling first impelled her towards books; and, if music had been the food of sorrow, the productions of the wise became its medicine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My schooling was paid for; it was a bargain; and when I came away, the bargain ended. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I don't deny,' added Bitzer, 'that my schooling was cheap. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It would just suit you; schooling is your vocation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And that having this gift, and not being equally good at other things, he has made shift to get some schooling. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He thinks himself somebody because he has had a bit more schooling than we, said the Doctor. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- With such schooling did my poor Idris try to hush thronging fears, and in some measure succeeded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The main texture of disposition is formed, independently of schooling, by such influences. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- All the schooling Betty had had was at Mrs. Bute Crawley's Sunday school, and she could no more read writing than Hebrew. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You, too, need schooling. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It's in hand, though; and young Tom, who rather sticks to business at present—something new for him; he hadn't the schooling _I_ had—is helping. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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