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

  • (..) Whether it's a ghost, a spirit or an entity, they all feed on it. Take Maurice here. A French-Canadian farmer with no more than a third-grade education... ...yet after he was possessed, spoke some of the best Latin I'd ever heard. Sometimes backwards. He'd been molested by his father, (..)
    2013 The Conjuring