Basic Details
Word: Education
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: The teaching and learning that happens at school, college and through life, and the knowledge it gives you.
Synonyms: schooling, teaching, learning, instruction
Antonyms: ignorance
How to Spell Education
Syllables: ed - u - ca - tion
Tricky part: The ending is -tion, not -sion or -shun, because the word is built from educate. The u after ed is also often missed.
Watch out for: educasion, edukation, educaton
Memory tip: Build it in two steps: take educate, drop the final e and add -ion. The t of educate stays, so the end is tion.
Usage Examples
Example 1: The Right to Education Act promises free schooling to every child aged six to fourteen.
Example 2: Her parents saved for years to pay for her college education.
Example 3: Physical education is my favourite period of the week.
Fun Fact
Education uses each of the five vowels a, e, i, o and u exactly once; the rarer words facetious and abstemious even have them in alphabetical order.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the meaning of the only correctly spelt word:
1. sylabus 2. education 3. curiculum 4. scholership
a) all the subjects taught in a school or college
b) money given to a student to help pay for study
c) the process of teaching and learning
d) the list of topics in a course
Show answer
c) the process of teaching and learning. Syllabus needs a double l, curriculum a double r, and scholarship has an a before rship.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Savitribai Phule opened one of the first schools for girls in Pune because she believed that educasion could change their lives.
a) schools
b) educasion
c) change
d) believed
Show answer
b) educasion. Educate becomes education by swapping its e for -ion, so the t is kept: educa-t-ion.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word education as used in the sentence:
My grandfather's education ended at Class 5, but he never stopped reading newspapers.
a) schooling
b) holiday
c) childhood
d) friendship
Show answer
a) schooling. His education was the time he spent being taught at school, which is his schooling.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A child's education includes ____.
a) learning to read
b) buying new shoes
c) losing a key
d) catching a cold
Show answer
a) learning to read
2. Higher education usually takes place at ____.
a) a primary school
b) a college or university
c) a hospital
d) a playground
Show answer
b) a college or university
