Education vs. Edification — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Education and Edification
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Definitions
Education
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion and directed research.
Edification
The moral or intellectual instruction or improvement of someone
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Education
The act or process of educating or being educated.
Edification
Intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement; enlightenment.
Education
The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
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Edification
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified or improved; a building process, especially morally, emotionally, or spiritually
Education
A program of instruction of a specified kind or level
Driver education.
A college education.
Edification
(archaic) A building or edifice.
Education
The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.
Edification
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
The assured edification of his church.
Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification.
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Education
An instructive or enlightening experience
Her work in an animal shelter was a real education.
Edification
A building or edifice.
Education
(uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
Good education is essential for a well-run society.
Edification
Uplifting enlightenment
Education
(countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.
He has had a classical education.
The educations our children receive depend on their economic status.
Education
The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge.
Education
The activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill;
He received no formal education
Our instruction was carefully programmed
Good teaching is seldom rewarded
Education
Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction;
It was clear that he had a very broad education
Education
The gradual process of acquiring knowledge;
Education is a preparation for life
A girl's education was less important than a boy's
Education
The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)
Education
The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);
A woman of breeding and refinement
Education
The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979
