We speak of the teaching, training, or discipline, but not of the education or tuition of a dog or a horse. Study is emphatically what one does for himself. Tuition is the technical term for teaching as the business of an instructor or as in the routine of a school tuition is narrower than teaching, not, like the latter word, including training. Discipline is systematic and rigorous training, with the idea of subjection to authority and perhaps of punishment. Training refers not merely to the impartation of knowledge, but to the exercising of one in actions with the design to form habits. Teaching is the more familiar and less formal word for instruction. Instruction, the impartation of knowledge by others (Latin instruere, to build in or into) is but a part of education, often the smallest part. 'Every person,' says Gibbon, 'has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.'" John Lubbock The Use of Life ch. It continues through life, whether we will or not. It begins in the nursery, and goes on at school, but does not end there. " Education is the harmonious development of all our faculties. Education (Latin educere, to lead or draw out) is the systematic development and cultivation of the mind and other natural powers.
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