education

Definition

  • noun: the action or process of teaching someone especially in a school, college, or university
  • noun: the action or process of 'educating' or of being 'educated'
  • synonyms: training, breeding, teaching

Examples

  • The school is devoted to the 'education' of children with reading difficulties.

  • Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of 'higher education'.

  • Our vacation turned out to be a very 'educational' experience.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I fancy you will be asked to leave the regiment. I'll go when I'm ready to go. A little affair with a married woman puts a finishing touch to a young man's education. But this morbid, selfish obsession... You've publicly humiliated yourself and dishonored a man who has devoted his life to Russia. (..)
    2012 Anna Karenina