training center

Skill development hub

A training center is a facility dedicated to instruction and skill development in a particular field.

Corporate training centers prepare employees, athletic training centers condition athletes, and military training centers drill recruits.

The term emphasizes purpose-built spaces with specialized equipment or programs: The company sent new hires to their training center in Dallas.

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driver's ed · fire academy · simulator · institute · gymnasium · certification · bootcamp · facility · summer camp · obstacle course · seminar · instructor · dance studio · climbing gym · drill · recruits · barracks · library

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educational formality

training centerresearch university

Institution combining teaching and scholarship

ivory tower · university · graduate school · doctoral program · liberal arts college

skill development vs. skill deployment

training centerworkplace

Employment location

field · front lines · production floor · theater of operations · combat zone

structured vs. unstructured learning

training centerschool of hard knocks

Education through suffering

on-the-job · self-teaching · street · real world · trial by fire

Family

center, training

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G