Look up: Education

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   Education
   Training and investment in human capital.
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   Education
   The transmission of knowledge from one generation to another bymeans of direct instruction. Although educational processes exist in all societies, it is only in the modern period that mass education has taken the form of schooling – that is, instruction in specialized educational environments in which individuals spend several years of their lives.
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   education
   [n] - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction 2. [n] - the gradual process of acquiring knowledge 3. [n] - the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) 4. [n] - the activities of educating or instructing or teaching 5. [n] - the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
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   Education
   the social institution guiding the transmission of knowledge, job skills, cultural norms and values
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   Education
   Activity aimed at developing the knowledge, skills, moral values and understanding required to function effectively in a social environment (see training).
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   education
   Process, beginning at birth, of developing intellectual capacity, skills, and social awareness, especially by instruction. In its more restricted sense, the term refers to the process of imparting...
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   education
   In the early days of the Republic, the education of children was completely in the hands of their parents. If his father could read and write, he taught his son to do the same. The father instructed his sons in Roman law, history, customs, and physical training, to prepare for war. Reverence for the gods, respect for law, obedience to authority, an...
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   Education
   individual-related learning experiences Category: Management in the public and private sector • Ireland:A programme of learning over an extended period with general objectives relating to the personal development of the pupil/ student and/or his/her acquisition of knowledge.In addition education refers to the area of public policy concerned with programmes of learning in a particular j...
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   Education
   Ed`u·ca'tion noun [ Latin educatio ; confer French éducation .] The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education . � ...
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    education
    The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. 'To prepare us for complete living is the fu ...
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    education
    instruction 1 teaching 1 pedagogy 1 didactics noun the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; `he received no formal education`; `our instruction was carefully programmed`; `good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded`
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    education
    noun knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; `it was clear that he had a very broad education`
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    education
    noun the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); `a woman of breeding and refinement`
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    Education
    `Education` encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of ped...
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    Education
    • (n.) The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.Education: words in the definitio...
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    education
    discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and ... [122 related articles]
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    education
    education 1. The imparting and acquiring of knowledge through teaching and learning; especially, at a school or similar institution. 2. The system of educating people in a community or society. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn? —Peter Ustinov, in Dear Me; 1977.
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    education
    
    1. knowledge acquired by learning and instruction
    2. the gradual process of acquiring knowledge
    3. the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
    4. the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
    
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    education
    the quantity and quality of schooling…
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    education
    education, any process, either formal or informal, that shapes the potential of a maturing organism. Informal education results from the constant effect of environment, and its strength in shaping values and habits can not be overestimated. Formal education is a conscious effort by human society to ...
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