Word Finder - education

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The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

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2016-06-17 AROP JOSEPH "Education is the slight hammer that breaks the yoke of ignorance, and moulds knowledge, skills, ideas, good moral values in a person be it a child, a youth or full grown adult. no matter a persons age learning never stops".

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Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.

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He has had a classical education.

Our young people need education and more organized activities.

You have the education, the experience in business and the personality.

I'm going to get an education and a decent job.

My education can wait, she can't.

Mr. Tim paid for my education and training.

Tonight has been an education for me.

This is all that his foreign education has done for him!

He had the background and the education, but he obviously didn't have the inclination to adjust to the one being forced on him.

I feel awful that Dad had to die because I put my education before his health.

The kid could have a future, at least get a college education out of the game.

Education will bring light and music into Tommy's soul, and then he cannot help being happy.

He founded the Madrasa or college for Mahommedan education at Calcutta, primarily out of his own funds; and he projected the foundation of an Indian institute in England.

To pay for his college education, Borlaug would periodically put his education on hold to find work.

Education is available to every person in the community.

I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

He was appointed inspector-general of higher education in 1876, and after his election as life senator in 1881 he continued to take an active interest in educational questions, especially as affected by compulsory military service.

But whether Helen stays at home or makes visits in other parts of the country, her education is always under the immediate direction and exclusive control of her teacher.

Considering his comment about ambition, he probably didn't consider the education wasted.

An attack of the ague sent him home, and on recovery, having resolved to attend a high school and fit himself to become a teacher, he passed the next four years in a hard struggle with poverty and in an earnest effort to secure an education, studying for a short time in the Geauga Seminary atChester, Ohio.

In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately.

In the early years of her education she had only good things to read; some were, indeed, trivial and not excellent in style, but not one was positively bad in manner or substance.

Cannot students be boarded here and get a liberal education under the skies of Concord?

When one has studied, you see, one likes education and well-bred people.'

While her writing demonstrates education, most likely her background ill equipped her for the practical realities of the real world.

You glorify your education.

A Sikh college for university education was opened in 1897.

And as population rises, education rises, health rises, and wealth rises, more and more people will be working on these problems.

Of Waynflete's education it is only possible to assert that he was at Oxford University.

I know that the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Nowadays, that takes an education.

As a youth he fled from home to escape a clerical education, but afterwards joined his father in the coasting trade.

The population was at that time a little over 300,000; public security and education were alike lacking, and there were considerable animosities between different parts of the island.

Having received his elementary education at the monastery of Monte Cassino, he studied for six years at the university of Naples, leaving it in his-sixteenth year.

Since 1910 education other than elementary is under the control of the Union parliament.

All that education might come in handy if we have trouble.

Coming to England shortly after the completion of his education in the Rabbinic College at Warsaw, Dr Ginsburg continued his study of the Hebrew Scriptures, with special attention to the Megilloth.

The education of Uitlander children is made subject to impossible conditions.

Yes, that's a difficulty, as education is not at all general, but...

He decided that he must attend to his son's education by finding a tutor and putting the boy in his charge, then he ought to retire from the service and go abroad, and see England, Switzerland and Italy.

Education is very widely distributed, and in every state it is compulsory for children of school ages to attend school.

I cheated him out of his chance at a good education?

He, too, was a disciple of Rousseau, believed in the education of nature, and allowed his Sophie to wander at her own sweet will.

As a boy he showed evidence of remarkable talents, and his father Leonidas gave him an excellent education.

The majority he obtained on this occasion enabled him, however, to carry through the Army Education Bill, which tended to magyarize the Hungarian portion of the joint army; and another period of comparative calm ensued, during which Banffy attempted to adjust various outstanding financial and economical differences with Austria.

Next to the poor rate came that for highways, and other special rates have been authorized from time to time, as for police, education, public lighting, cemeteries, libraries, sanitary purposes, &c. To distinguish the rate the name of the precepting authority is frequently added or the purpose for which it is levied specified, as county rate, watch rate, &c. The valuation list of a parish is the basis on which the poor rate is levied.

At the head of the permanent staff is a director of education.

Lamartine's early education was received from his mother.

It is probable that he completed his education at Leiden or Utrecht.

Philip received his education in Spain.

He's got so much going for him—a girl who loves him, a great family, smarts, education, good looks, and you said he's a jock.