Definitions for Education

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Education ed·u·ca·tion

Spelling: [ej-oo-key-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən/

Education is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 575 anagrams from letters in Education (acdeinotu).

Definitions for Education

noun

1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
3. a degree, level, or kind of schooling:
4. the result produced by instruction, training, or study:
5. the science or art of teaching; pedagogics.

Origin of Education

1525-35; (Middle French) Latin ēducātiōn- (stem of ēducātiō), equivalent to ēducāt(us) (see educate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for Education

This is why arguments for little to no federal oversight of education are so disturbing.

Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.

We do not dread, rather do we welcome, their progress in education and industry.

In this new land, education will be every citizen's most prized possession.

What they believe impacts economic policy, foreign policy, education policy, environmental policy, you name it.

Every advantage of education is to be procured by the same means.

It was charged that the system of education at Eton failed in every point.

The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of education.

By it a national and compulsory system of education was established for the first time.

education controls the transmission of values and molds the spirit before dominating the soul.