Vocation vs Education - What's the difference?
vocation | education |
An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling.
An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
(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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As nouns the difference between vocation and education
is that vocation is an inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling while education is the process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.vocation
English
(wikipedia vocation)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* vocationalHypernyms
* job * labour * occupation * workeducation
English
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.}}