Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One trained in teaching; a teacher.
- n. A specialist in the theory and practice of education.
- n. An administrator of a school or an educational institution.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which educates; specifically, one who makes a business or a special study of education; a teacher or instructor.
Wiktionary
- n. A person distinguished for his/her educational work
- n. A person who, or a thing which, educates
- n. A teacher
- n. A person that accepts responsibility for the educating process and educates by supporting and assisting an educand.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who educates; a teacher.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who educates young people
Examples
“The role of an educator is not to lecture from on high, filling empty vessels with a predetermined amount of "correct" knowledge.”
The Huffington Post: Audrey Kuo: The 'Privilege' Of Good Education: Restoring The Right To Learn
“As NCATE puts it, The essential task of any educator is to combine a depth of knowledge about subjects with a thorough understanding of the subject under study and to bridge the two with appropriate instructional plans and pedagogical tools.”
The Huffington Post: Sam Chaltain: It's the Development, Stupid
“Further, becoming a diabetes educator is not easy, there is no direct route.”
The Huffington Post: Riva Greenberg: The Urgent State of Diabetes
“My friend Charlie Darling, whom I know as a kickass sex educator, is going to be singing.”
“It doesn't take much to shuffle test papers in front of a classrooms of students; the art of the educator is in interpreting the results and assisting each student in their strength and weaknesses.”
Sound Politics: Sorry, low-income children of Washington, you lose
“My best guess as an educator is she needs a good dose of self esteem and self value.”
“My role as an educator is to seek out this information, present it in a way that stimulates thinking, in a way that informs opinion and transforms mere opinions into cogent arguments.”
“But the role of educator is a role which responsible persons dare not shirk.”
“The American medical educator is not anxious to seek either state or federal aid, fearing the possibility that state support will result in some degree of state direction.”
“As a parent and long-term educator at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, I am appalled that the city is assisting Everest College, a subsidiary of Corinthian Colleges, to set up a campus here.”
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contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Teacher
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