Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Education

Education (?; 135) , noun

[Latin educatio; compare French éducation.]

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.
To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. — H. Spenser