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noun The act or process of educating or being educated.
noun The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
noun A program of instruction of a specified kind or level: driver education; a college education.

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The imparting or acquisition of knowledge; mental and moral training; cultivation of the mind, feelings, and manners. Education in a broad sense, with reference to man, comprehends all that disciplines and enlightens the understanding, corrects the temper, cultivates the taste, and forms the manners and habits; in a narrower sense, it is the special course of training pursued, as by parents or teachers, to secure any one or all of these ends. Under physical education is included all that relates to the development and care of the organs of sensation and of the muscular and nervous system. Intellectual education comprehends the means by which the powers of the understanding are developed and improved, and knowledge is imparted. Esthetic education is the development of the sense of the beautiful, and of technical skill in the arts. Moral education is the cultivation of the moral nature. Technical education is intended to train persons in the arts and sciences that underlie the practice of the trades or professions. Education is further divided into primary education, or instruction in the first elements of knowledge, received by children in common or elementary schools or at home; secondary, that received in grammar and high schools or in academies; higher, that received in colleges, universities, and postgraduate study; and special or professional, that which aims to fit one for the particular vocation or profession in which he is to engage. With reference to animals, the word is used in the narrowest sense of training in useful or amusing acts or habits. By wardeship the moste parte of noble men and gentlemen within this Realme haue bene brought vp ignorantly and voide of good educasions. Quoted in Booke of Precedence (E.E.T.S., extra ser.), [Forewords, p. ix.] To love her was a liberal education. Steele, Tatler, No. 49. Is there no danger of their neglecting or rejecting altogether those opinions of which they have heard so little during the whole course of their education? Hume, Dial. concerning Natural Religion, i. But education. in the true sense, is not mere instruction in Latin, English, French, or history. It is the unfolding of the whole human nature. It is growing up in all things to our highest possibility. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 36.
The rearing of animals, especially bees, silkworms, or the like; culture, as of bacteria in experimenting; a brood or collection of cultivated creatures. [Recent, from French use.] If they [silkworm-moths] were free from disease, then a crop was sure; if they were infected, the education would surely fail … Small educations, reared apart from the ordinary magnanerie, … were recommended. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 59.
Bureau of Education an office of the United States government, forming a part of the Department of the Interior, and charged with the promotion of the cause of education through the collection and diffusion of statistical and other information. It originated in 1867. Its head is called the Commissioner of Education. Synonyms Training, Discipline, etc. (see instruction); breeding, schooling.

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While some "ownership" of their education might be a good thing, possibly motivating them to not waste their own money, I think that this is a time when students need to be full-time students without distractions, especially those causing unnecessary steps. — pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
Bob Moore, Victoria school district superintendent, said preparing students for higher education is a priority for the district. — Victoria Advocate stories: News
If your education was anything like mine, you were generally restricted to responding in short, one or two sentence answers to some prompt from the textbook, or you had to describe your weekend in some fashion. — Japanator

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