Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Instruction or training given at school.
- noun Education obtained through experience or exposure.
- noun The training of a horse or a horse and rider in equitation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Instruction in school; tuition.
- noun Compensation for instruction; price paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
- noun Reproof; reprimand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
- noun Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
- noun Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
- noun Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
training orinstruction - noun
education - noun dressage the training of a
horse atdressage - verb Present participle of
school .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of teaching at school
- noun the process of being formally educated at a school
- noun the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
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Examples
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Much of what we call schooling forecloses or shuts down or walls off meaningful choice-making.
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Much of what we call schooling forecloses or shuts down or walls off meaningful choice-making.
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Much of what we call schooling forecloses or shuts down or walls off meaningful choice-making.
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Take a hard look at those that are in the crosshairs of corruption, pandering and deceipt at the top of the political heap, and more often then not, Ivy League schooling is the common denominator.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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Home schooling is touted by millions of parents and a segment of the education establishment.
Matthew Yglesias » The Government Makes the Stuff We Need 2009
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The problem with home schooling is selection bias.
Future of Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The problem with home schooling is selection bias.
Future of Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Take a hard look at those that are in the crosshairs of corruption, pandering and deceipt at the top of the political heap, and more often then not, Ivy League schooling is the common denominator.
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion. 2010
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To bounce off of Steve at #12, one of the things here is that unless one been personally involved in schooling in a “troubled area” (from whatever end), one probably has little grasp of what that actually means.
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Private schooling is a the prevailing fact of life for anyone who can afford it in DC.
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