Awaken vs Educate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between awaken and educate

is that awaken is to cause to become awake while educate is to instruct or train.

To cause to become awake.

She awakened him by ringing the bell.

To cause to become conscious.

How to awaken your brain?

How to awaken your entrepreneurial spirit?

We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

To stop sleeping.

Each morning he awakens with a smile in his face.

* awake, stir

* (stop sleeping) fall asleep

* (generally jocular) educamate * (generally jocular) edumacate

to instruct or train

* instruct * teach

* co-educate

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