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

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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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1. Alan Simpson:

   Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

2. David Pilgrim:

   You can keep me out of Harvard, but you cannot keep me uneducated. As long as there are books to read, I control my education. We will fight to dismantle the barriers in higher education, but we own the education of our minds.

3. Patricia Oduwole:

   Girl's education is important because on the African continent, where there are not as many resources, the boys are the first [to get an education], the boys go to school and get an education while the girls stay at home. And those girls aren't education and fewer option in life when they get older.

4. Gavin Newsom:

   This impasse is disrupting the lives of too many kids and their families, last week, I submitted a budget to the Legislature that would make the largest ever investment in K through 12 education, help pay down billions in school district pension debt and provide substantial new funding for special education and early education.

5. Marylin Zuniga:

   Marylin Zuniga, a first-year teacher who drew widespread condemnation for assigning Marylin Zuniga young charges the task of writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal, was canned at the meeting of the Orange Board of Education, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported. Even when I heard that the letters were written... because of compassion, you could've written to somebody in a nursing home. - Gloria Stewart, Orange Board of Education, NJ resident Marylin Zuniga, who taught at Forest Street Elementary School, told board members prior to their hasty vote to can Marylin Zuniga that Marylin Zuniga has broad support from around the country, the newspaper reported. There's people around the nation who support me, who believe I need to be reinstated and I believe that I need to be reinstated, my students need me in the classroom. My students have requested that I come back to the classroom. Abu-Jamal, a 61-year-old serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, is a self-styled poet who became a darling of celebrities and activists while on death row. His sentence was later commuted to life without parole, and he was suffering from complications from diabetes when Marylin Zuniga assigned the task. The vote to fire Zuniga occurred after several hours of public speakers, many of whom praised Zuniga for teaching Marylin Zuniga students to have compassion for a man who killed a police officer. Abu-Jamal killed Daniel Faulkner during a routine traffic stop of Abu-Jamal’s brother. At trial, several witnesses reported seeing Abu-Jamal kill Daniel Faulkner, and two witnesses said Abu-Jamal confessed to the killing, saying, I shot the mother --- er, and I hope the mother --- er dies. Although the abrupt vote left meeting attendees unsure of what had happened, Orange Board of Education Superintendent Ronald Lee confirmed that Marylin Zuniga was fired in an email to the Star-Ledger. As this is a personnel issue, I have no further comments on this matter, Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee wrote. Zuniga’s attorney, Alan Levine, told the newspaper Marylin Zuniga is now considering legal action to challenge Marylin Zuniga firing. Several speakers at the meeting, including Essex County Freeholder President Britnee Timberlake, praised Marylin Zuniga.