Synonyms for education
ˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃəned·u·ca·tion

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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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Cognitive Content
   • Education
   • Learning
   • Profession

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1. eko

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

   Submitted by anonymous on February 24, 2020  

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1. educationnoun

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

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1. educationnoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "education":

   educational, teaching, training, schooling, instruction, upbringing, educating, studies, learning, educate, school, 'éducation, educación, éducation, tuition, awareness, formation, 'enseignement, bildung, educated, educação, schools, educative, instructional, awareness-raising, academic, study, enseñanza

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How to use education in a sentence?

1. Malcolm X:

   Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

2. Alex Wong/Getty Images:

   Well, it's clear to me that we can't do student debt relief every 10 years or so. And I think about this as someone who needed Pell Grants and low-interest student loans to get through school. I paid mine off, but the situation has changed over the last 35 years, we've seen the price of college education continue to outpace inflation. We've seen bad actors in that student loan debt space, and I'm interested in reform, both reforming the process itself — I'd like to see us make more Pell Grants available — and I'd like to see us hold people accountable in that space so we get the price of college tuition, or technical tuition or community college tuition under control.

3. Ganga Sagar Pant:

   Terrorism is just the product, root cause of the terrorism is the exclusive education in some faiths and the Arms production in some countries.

4. Lindsay Stark:

   Often, researchers and policy-makers may only look within one of these domains -- such as health or education -- to draw conclusions about child well-being or to set policy, by considering a composite of domains and looking across multiple areas of well-being, policy makers are more likely to develop appropriate and effective policies for children, including funding allocations.

5. Yaakov Menken:

   I haven't read Maus, but not every book is appropriate for every age group, and it's inappropriate to claim the school board doesn't want to provide Holocaust education because they don't want one particular book.