educating

Training young minds

Educating is the process of teaching or providing instruction.

Parents and schools share responsibility for educating children.

The word extends beyond formal schooling to any effort at informing or raising awareness: The campaign focused on educating voters about climate change.

To educate oneself is to learn independently: She spent years educating herself on wine.

learning

teaching

Profession of instructing others

curriculum · scholarship · study · knowledge · comprehension · literacy · academia · erudition · schooling · training

teaching

pedagogy

Art of instruction

tutor · mentor · coach · professor · instructor · lecturer · facilitator · syllabus · didactic · schooling

development

nurturing

Supportive care-giving

upbringing · socialization · molding · shaping · fostering · mentoring · character-building · empowerment · potential · self-improvement

enlightenment

awareness

State of perceiving reality

understanding · clarity · realization · awakening · consciousness · perception · discernment · epiphany · revelation · broadening

academic

university

Higher education institution

thesis · dissertation · peer-reviewed · journal · publication · undergraduate · postgraduate · doctorate · scholarly · degree

process

extraction

Act of removing

isolation · refinement · recovery · eliciting · deriving · obtaining · deducing · inferring · evoking

Categories
Opposites
knowledge transfer direction

educatingdumbing down

Making content less challenging

brainwashing · indoctrinating · stupefying · stultifying · obscuring

cognitive effect on recipient

educatingconfusing

Causing mental uncertainty

bewildering · mystifying · obfuscating · muddling · befuddling

truth value of content

educatingmisinforming

Conveying inaccurate facts

misleading · disinforming · deceiving · deluding · propagandizing

Phrases
Family

education, educational, educative, reeducation, educations, miseducation, miseducating

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