Etymology
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schooling (n.)

mid-15c., scolyng, scoling "training, instruction in school; act of teaching; fact of being taught," verbal noun from school (v.1).

Of fyve husbondes scoleiyng am I. [Wife of Bath's Prologue]

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school (v.1)

"educate, instruct;" also "reprimand, discipline, reprove," mid-15c., scolen, from school (n.1). Especially "to train or discipline thoroughly and strictly," as in a school (1570s).

deschooling (n.)

"act or process of removing the function of education from conventional schools to non-institutional systems of learning," 1970, coined by Austrian-born U.S. anarchist philosopher Ivan Illich (1926-2002), from de- + schooling.

updated on January 31, 2022

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Dictionary entries near schooling

school-book

schoolboy

schooled

schoolgirl

school-house

schooling

schoolmarm

school-master

schoolmate

schoolroom

school-teacher

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