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Education vs Counseling - What's the difference?

education | counseling |

As nouns the difference between education and counseling

is that education is education while counseling is assistance]] (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal [[difficulty|difficulties.

As a verb counseling is

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education

English

Alternative forms

* (generally jocular) educashun, educamation

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

    Derived terms

    * all-round education * distance education * educational * educationist * general education * liberal education * mass education * primary education * secondary education * tertiary education * higher education * further education * edjamacation

    See also

    * training * schooling

    counseling

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (British English)

    Noun

  • Assistance]] (especially from a professional) in the resolution of personal [[difficulty, difficulties.
  • Derived terms

    * bereavement counseling * marriage counseling

    Verb

    (head)