2. learning, schooling, culture, breeding, scholarship, civilization, cultivation, refinement a man with little education Quotations“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet” [Aristophanes]“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave” [Lord Henry Brougham speech to the House […]
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definition of college by The Free Dictionary
He asked me, or to be truthful, he begged me to send him Don Quixote, for he intended to found a college where the Spanish tongue would be taught, and it was his wish that the book to be read should be the History of Don Quixote. “That,” replied the […]
definition of career by The Free Dictionary
“Sluggard”–why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career. Do not jest, it is so. Anna Mikhaylovna also had of late visited them less frequently, seemed to hold herself with particular dignity, and always spoke rapturously and gratefully of the merits of her son and the brilliant career […]