Synonyms for education

noun

1. The process of directing learning

   schooling, study, training, direction, instruction, guidance, teaching, tutoring, coaching, tutelage, learning, reading, enlightenment, edification, inculcation, discipline, tuition, preparation, adult education, book learning, self-instruction, informing, indoctrination, brainwashing, proselytism, propagandism, catechism, cultivation, background, rearing, nurture, apprenticeship; reading, writing, and 'rithmetic*; the three R's*, book larnin'*.

2. Knowledge acquired through education

   learning, wisdom, scholarship, literacy; see knowledge 1.

3. The teaching profession

   teaching, pedagogy, tutoring, instruction, training, pedagogics, didactics, teaching methods, the field of education, progressive education, lecturing, professing (British).

4. Refinement

   cultivation, finish, enlightenment; see culture 3.