Education vs Institution - What's the difference?
education | institution |
(uncountable) The process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
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, title= (countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.
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, title= An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
The building which houses such an organisation.
A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.
(informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.
The act of instituting.
(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.
As nouns the difference between education and institution
is that education is the process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment while institution is an established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.education
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Alternative forms
* (generally jocular) educashun, educamationNoun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
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 * edjamacationSee also
* training * schoolingAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsinstitution
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Noun
(wikipedia institution) (en noun)- There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.