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noun

Schooling n.

Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.

Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.

Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

verb

School v. t. (past & past part. schooled; pres. part. schooling)

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. "He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned."

To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train. "It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled." "The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze."

adjective

Schooling adj. (Zool.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals. "Schooling species like the herring and menhaden."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... two-tenths of 1 per cent to less than 2 per cent in 10 of the foremost nations of Europe it rivets our attention to it serious problem when we are reminded of a 6 per cent illiteracy in the United States. The figures are based on the test which defines an Illiterate as one having no schooling whatever. Remembering the wide freedom of our public schools with compulsory attendance in many States in the Union, one is convinced that much of our excessive illiteracy comes to us from abroad, and the education of the immigrant becomes it requisite ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... sardine is found in latitudes a little farther south than the schooling-grounds of the cod. The most important fisheries are along the coasts of the Latin states of Europe. Sardine fishing is a great industry all along the New England coast of the United States, but the "sardines" marketed from this region are young herring. Indeed, nearly all sorts of small ...

— Commercial Geography - A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges • Jacques W. Redway

... Schooling the fury of her eagerness, and in another mood, Madame von Marwitz, after long cogitations in the little sitting-room, would mount to point out to Karen that to persist in her refusal to marry Franz, when she was ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... a week at the Navy Yard, pay for your son's schooling in Germany, clothes, etc., and you and your wife took more than a month's trip to Germany last year. How do you do it on forty ...

— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

... thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education—that of direct tuition or schooling. In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal ...

— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

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