duc-, -duce, -duct, -ducent, -ductor, -duction, -ductive, -ducer, -ducement, -ducation +
(Latin: to lead, leading; bringing; to take; to draw along or out)
educate
1. To give knowledge to or to develop the abilities of someone by teaching.
2. To arrange schooling for anyone.
3. To train, to instruct, or to improve somebody's awareness about a particular field.
4. Etymology: from Latin educatus, past participle of educare “to lead out”; from ex-, "out" + ducere, “to lead”.
educated
1. Having had a good education: "This is the writing of an educated person."
2. Showing good taste or refinement: "She always seemed to have a quiet educated attitude."
3. Having the benefit of experience or knowledge: "Those companies want an educated work force."
4. Showing evidence of schooling, training, or experience: "He was an educated man with an impressive career."
5. Having or exhibiting cultivation; cultured; such as, an educated manner.
6. Based on a certain amount of experience or factual knowledge: "We made an educated guess about what to do."
educatee
A person who receives instruction; a student.
education
1. The imparting and acquiring of knowledge through teaching and learning; especially, at a school or similar institution.
2. The system of educating people in a community or society.
After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?
—Peter Ustinov, in Dear Me; 1977.
educational
1. Providing knowledge, instruction, or information to others.
2. Relating to teaching and learning.
3. Relating to or concerned with education.
4. The process of giving knowledge, instruction, or information.
educationalist
An expert in the theories or administration of education.
educationally
1. In an educational manner.
2. A reference to, involving, or descriptive of education.
Educatio pro omnibus.
Education for all.
Motto of Sampson Technical College, Clinton, North Carolina, USA.
educative
1. Serving to educate: "She obtained educative knowledge from her reading."
2. Pertaining to or productive of education.
educator
1. A professional teacher.
2. An expert in the theories or administration of education.
educe, educes, educing, educed
1. To elicit or to derive something; for example, a conclusion.
2. To assume or to work out from given facts; to deduce.
3. To draw forth or to bring out, as something potential or latent; to elicit; to develop.
educible
Capable of implying or bringing out something potential or latent: "He educed order out of chaos."
educt
A substance extracted from another substance without chemical alteration.
eduction
1. The derivation or development of something, or something derived or developed.
2. The exhaust of an engine, especially an internal-combustion or steam engine.
eductor
Someone who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
Cross references of word families related to "bear, carry, bring":
-fer;
ger-;
later-, -lation;
phoro-;
port-.