EHC

Noun

education (countable and uncountable, plural educations)

1. (uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
   • For though education, in the true sense of the word, is necessary to excellence, yet a question still lies open, What is education? Is it certain old rules of thinking which require to be forced on the individual by others, more particularly than those which, by the exercise of his own faculties...1881, John Younger, “Introductory Chapter”, in Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, St. Boswells, Kelso, Scotland: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd, page xii
2. (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
   • Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education...
     Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
3. (archaic) Upbringing, rearing.
   • I found them [my children] all I could wish and progressing rapidly under the truly maternal care of the kind Sisters who cared for their education.1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 23