educationEnglishOxford American Thesauruseducation noun 1 the education of children with special needs: teaching, schooling, tuition, tutoring, instruction, pedagogy, andragogy, coaching, training, tutelage, drilling, preparation, guidance, indoctrination, inculcation, enlightenment, edification, cultivation, development, improvement, bettering. 2 a young woman of some education: learning, knowledge, literacy, schooling, scholarship, enlightenment, cultivation, culture, refinement; archaic letters. ▷antonyms ignorance.word linkseducationpedagogic relating to education