What is education?

  • (noun): The activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill.
    Example: "He received no formal education"
    Synonyms: instruction, teaching, pedagogy, educational activity
    See also — Additional definitions below

Education

Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research, or simply through autodidacticism. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts.

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Yaroslavl - Education
... the non-state funded institutions for further education in the city is the International Academy for Business and New Technologies (MUBiNT), and also a ...
Internationalization (Globalization and Education)
... Education is becoming increasingly international ... norms of how the school should operate and what is education ... have contributed to the internationalization of education ...
Fort Wayne, Indiana - Infrastructure - Education - Libraries
... In 1997, Places Rated Almanac recognized Fort Wayne as having the highest reading quotient of any place in North America, due in part to the city's quality library system. ...
Queens' College, Cambridge - Education At Queens'
... accepts students from all academic disciplines, except the combination of Education with English and Drama ... other Cambridge colleges, undergraduate education is based on the tutorial system ...

More definitions of "education":

  • (noun): Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction.
    Example: "It was clear that he had a very broad education"
  • (noun): The gradual process of acquiring knowledge.
    Example: "Education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's"
  • (noun): The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979.
    Synonyms: Department of Education, Education Department
  • (noun): The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university).
  • (noun): The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior).
    Synonyms: training, breeding

Famous quotes containing the word education:

    In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one’s parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as “self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.”
    C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
    David Elkind (20th century)