Education vs Upbringing - What's the difference?
education | upbringing |
(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= The traits acquired during one's childhood training
The raising or training of a child.
As nouns the difference between education and upbringing
is that education is the process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment while upbringing is the traits acquired during one's childhood training.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 wordsupbringing
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Noun
(en noun)- Through her upbringing , Mildred's father had carefully programmed her to expect very little from life.
