Scholastic vs Schoolish - What's the difference?
scholastic | schoolish |
(philosophy) a member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian
Of or relating to school; academic
* This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
(philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
Of or pertaining to school; scholastic.
*1916 , Educational review:
*2009 , Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, Educational Research: The Educationalization of Social Problems :
*2010 , Laurie MacGillivray, Literacy in Times of Crisis: Practices and Perspectives :
Characteristic of school rather than real life; pedantic, pedagogical, etc.
* 1987 , Michel Leiris, Nights as day, days as night
* 2008 , Arthur T. Costigan, Teaching Authentic Language Arts in a Test-Driven Era
As adjectives the difference between scholastic and schoolish
is that scholastic is (scholastic) while schoolish is of or pertaining to school; scholastic.As a noun scholastic
is (scholastic).scholastic
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Alternative forms
* * (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- (John Locke)
Derived terms
* scholasticism * scholasticallyschoolish
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Adjective
(en adjective)- [...] it has studied the trend of the school, but not the trend of business, its leadership has been scholastic, not commercial. Today, commercial education finds itself of the school, schoolish , and not of the business house, business-like.
- By assessing this situation we have come to consider the dimensions of pedagogical–didactic interaction and communication that we, together with Antonio Viñao Frago (1996) and others, consider to be just as essential for examining the particular nature of schoolish institutions.
- As a struggling student, Lo was fed up with “schoolish practices” and refused to perform for the sake of pleasing her teachers.
- Its structure, which could strike one as derived from an arithmetic or geometry lesson, is schoolish , as is its content...
- When we reflect on it, many of the things we teachers do are artificial and schoolish . They look very different from how real readers, writers, and speakers operate.