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单词 education
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Definition of education in English:

education

noun ɛdjʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • 1The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.

    a course of education
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All three academies are also supported by their local education authorities.
    • In the public school system, education is compulsory from age six to age sixteen.
    • An important part of the mission for many community colleges is developmental education.
    • As a focused team, we can affect legislation, education, and practice issues.
    • Are you describing online education as it is practiced today, or is this different?
    • Many pharmacists feel they require more education to practice within the PC model.
    • Its role also includes the inspection of local education authorities, teacher training institutions and youth work.
    • Although this has not been a requirement for other modes of medical practice or education, its importance should not be neglected.
    • The modular format can link theory and practice, between education and skills used on the job.
    • In homeland they get subsidized education from public universities.
    • This was all the more striking because he was by education an art historian.
    • We regularly do workshops for the local education authority in Schools.
    • Ability comes from hard work, practice, education, blood, sweat and tears.
    • But the local education authority has instructed a solicitor to establish who the rightful owner is.
    • I am extremely disgusted by the practice of education in China today as a business.
    • To many, adult education is nothing but literacy and remedial education aiming at teaching people how to read and write.
    • So that serves as a good metaphor for the way I think education and practice have separated and not come together.
    • Despite such broad shifts, the core practices of education remain essentially unchanged.
    • The purpose is to prevent our education from becoming obsolete and irrelevant within new global practices in education.
    Synonyms
    teaching, schooling, tuition, tutoring, instruction, pedagogy, andragogy, coaching, training, tutelage, drilling, preparation, guidance, indoctrination, inculcation, enlightenment, edification, cultivation, development, improvement, bettering
    1. 1.1 The theory and practice of teaching.
      colleges of education
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Teaching undergraduate education does not singularly focus on skills and competencies.
      • Her first job involved sitting on the senior management board of the college of teacher education in Awassa.
      • In England he applied his theories to dance education and also to designing corrective exercises for factory workers.
      • Beth had received her degree in teacher education from a large public university in the southwest.
      • Ideal presence was at the very center of his aesthetic, and it was, at bottom, a theory of visual education.
      • I also had four students who would be majoring in art education in college.
      • The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the theory and practice of drama and theatre education.
      • Current practice in mathematics education is deeply entrenched and pervasive.
      • I was shocked out of my shoes because my master's degree from Hunter College was grounded in education.
      • Much research about medical education proceeds devoid of theory.
    2. 1.2count noun A body of knowledge acquired while being educated.
      his education is encyclopedic and eclectic
      Synonyms
      learning, knowledge, literacy, schooling, scholarship, enlightenment, cultivation, culture, refinement
      archaic letters
    3. 1.3 Information about or training in a particular subject.
      health education
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition, lectures are organised for the families on topics such as health education and prevention of fire.
      • Another story said he was conducting an experiment in political education.
      • Thus, the perception of cannabis as a less dangerous drug is not mainly based on a lack of experience or drug education.
      • But how far does this aspiration tally with our own experience of medical education?
      • Other recommendations include reversing the trend of mixed sex education and training staff in religious awareness.
      • Let us be bold in addressing the issues of psychology education and training, for the next generation is here.
      • Health education comes as second nature to soap operas.
      • Should environmental education become a core subject in Australian schools?
      • Finally, results and their implications to pharmacy education and practice are discussed.
      • When will the Government open its eyes to the simple fact health education must promote abstinence outside marriage and fidelity within it?
      • This means that nursing care and assessments, the heart of nursing education, can be experienced.
      • The information you give will be used to develop better health education for young people like yourself.
      • One challenge involved putting together information on drugs education.
      Synonyms
      understanding, insight, learning, knowledge, awareness, information, erudition, wisdom, instruction, teaching
  • 2an educationAn enlightening experience.

    Petrus is a good workman—it is an education to watch him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, it was an education to watch the two in action.
    • It was an education to watch you at Fort William.

Derivatives

  • educationist

  • noun ɛdjʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)nɪstˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)nəst
    • The gathering comprised the school's management committee members, governing council members, educationists, sportspersons, parents and others.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thereafter, they were taken to various American cities, where they interacted with Christian, Jewish and Muslim educationists and visited schools run by different religious groups.
      • The highlight of the event is a series of interactive sessions involving school children, teachers, farmers, educationists, media representatives and development experts.
      • An elite group comprising diplomats, academics, educationists and journalists celebrated the ‘Day of Slavonic Script and Culture’ in the Capital on Monday.
      • Particulars regarding the age from which the scheme can be implemented must be discussed and confirmed by a panel of educationists, teachers and child psychologists.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin educatio(n-), from the verb educare (see educate).

 
 

Definition of education in US English:

education

nounˌejəˈkāSH(ə)nˌɛdʒəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
  • 1The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.

    a new system of public education
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The modular format can link theory and practice, between education and skills used on the job.
    • So that serves as a good metaphor for the way I think education and practice have separated and not come together.
    • This was all the more striking because he was by education an art historian.
    • Its role also includes the inspection of local education authorities, teacher training institutions and youth work.
    • To many, adult education is nothing but literacy and remedial education aiming at teaching people how to read and write.
    • Are you describing online education as it is practiced today, or is this different?
    • An important part of the mission for many community colleges is developmental education.
    • As a focused team, we can affect legislation, education, and practice issues.
    • In the public school system, education is compulsory from age six to age sixteen.
    • Many pharmacists feel they require more education to practice within the PC model.
    • All three academies are also supported by their local education authorities.
    • We regularly do workshops for the local education authority in Schools.
    • I am extremely disgusted by the practice of education in China today as a business.
    • Despite such broad shifts, the core practices of education remain essentially unchanged.
    • But the local education authority has instructed a solicitor to establish who the rightful owner is.
    • The purpose is to prevent our education from becoming obsolete and irrelevant within new global practices in education.
    • Although this has not been a requirement for other modes of medical practice or education, its importance should not be neglected.
    • Ability comes from hard work, practice, education, blood, sweat and tears.
    • In homeland they get subsidized education from public universities.
    Synonyms
    teaching, schooling, tuition, tutoring, instruction, pedagogy, andragogy, coaching, training, tutelage, drilling, preparation, guidance, indoctrination, inculcation, enlightenment, edification, cultivation, development, improvement, bettering
    1. 1.1 The theory and practice of teaching.
      colleges of education
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I also had four students who would be majoring in art education in college.
      • Teaching undergraduate education does not singularly focus on skills and competencies.
      • The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the theory and practice of drama and theatre education.
      • Ideal presence was at the very center of his aesthetic, and it was, at bottom, a theory of visual education.
      • Much research about medical education proceeds devoid of theory.
      • I was shocked out of my shoes because my master's degree from Hunter College was grounded in education.
      • Beth had received her degree in teacher education from a large public university in the southwest.
      • In England he applied his theories to dance education and also to designing corrective exercises for factory workers.
      • Current practice in mathematics education is deeply entrenched and pervasive.
      • Her first job involved sitting on the senior management board of the college of teacher education in Awassa.
    2. 1.2 A body of knowledge acquired while being educated.
      his education is encyclopedic and eclectic
      Synonyms
      learning, knowledge, literacy, schooling, scholarship, enlightenment, cultivation, culture, refinement
    3. 1.3 Information about or training in a particular field or subject.
      health education
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In addition, lectures are organised for the families on topics such as health education and prevention of fire.
      • When will the Government open its eyes to the simple fact health education must promote abstinence outside marriage and fidelity within it?
      • Another story said he was conducting an experiment in political education.
      • The information you give will be used to develop better health education for young people like yourself.
      • Other recommendations include reversing the trend of mixed sex education and training staff in religious awareness.
      • But how far does this aspiration tally with our own experience of medical education?
      • Thus, the perception of cannabis as a less dangerous drug is not mainly based on a lack of experience or drug education.
      • This means that nursing care and assessments, the heart of nursing education, can be experienced.
      • One challenge involved putting together information on drugs education.
      • Health education comes as second nature to soap operas.
      • Let us be bold in addressing the issues of psychology education and training, for the next generation is here.
      • Should environmental education become a core subject in Australian schools?
      • Finally, results and their implications to pharmacy education and practice are discussed.
      Synonyms
      understanding, insight, learning, knowledge, awareness, information, erudition, wisdom, instruction, teaching
  • 2an educationAn enlightening experience.

    a day with those kids was an education in patience and forbearance
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, it was an education to watch the two in action.
    • It was an education to watch you at Fort William.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin educatio(n-), from the verb educare (see educate).

 
 
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