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What is an education, an expanded definition including a dictionary def.
Title: What is an education, an expanded definition including a dictionary def.
Category: Society & Culture / Education
Details: Words: 956 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
What is an education, an expanded definition including a dictionary def.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary one of the definitions of the word 'education' is: 'The systematic instruction, schooling or training given to the young in preparation for the work of life; by extension, similar instruction or training obtained in adult age. Also, the whole course of scholastic instruction which a person has received. Often with limiting words denoting the nature of the predominant subject of the instruction or kind of life it prepares, as …showed first 75 words of 956 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 956 total…perhaps knowledge of information. Knowledge is gained in school. And knowledge is not an education in itself. Once a person can take his nuggets of information and apply them to everyday things then that person can consider himself educated. Until then, a high school or college education is as good as a book of facts. It is useful if you need to know something but worthless unless the information within is relative to the situation.
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