Definition

1. Noun:

   • Education: The systematic process of receiving or giving instruction, especially at a school, college, or university. It involves the formal teaching of knowledge, skills, and character development.
   • Upbringing / Nurturing: The broader process of facilitating learning and cultivating a person's intellectual, moral, and social capabilities.

2. Verb:

   • To educate: To provide someone with intellectual, moral, and social instruction.
   • To bring up / To nurture: To train or develop the mind, character, or abilities of someone, often through systematic instruction and guidance.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Giáo dục là quốc sách hàng đầu. (Education is the top national policy.)
  • Anh ấy có một nền giáo dục rất tốt. (He has a very good education.)
• Verb:
  • Cha mẹ có trách nhiệm giáo dục con cái. (Parents have the responsibility to educate their children.)
  • Nhà trường cần giáo dục học sinh về lòng yêu nước. (Schools need to educate students about patriotism.)

Advanced Usage

• "giáo dục đại chúng": mass education; public education.
  • Chính sách này nhằm phát triển giáo dục đại chúng. (This policy aims to develop mass education.)
• "giáo dục lại": to re-educate; to rehabilitate.
  • Các trung tâm giáo dục lại thanh thiếu niên. (Youth rehabilitation centers.)

Variants and Related Words

• Giáo dục học (n): pedagogy; the science and art of education.
  • Bà ấy là một chuyên gia về giáo dục học. (She is an expert in pedagogy.)
• Giáo dục tính (n): formative education; education focused on character building.
• Tái giáo dục (v): to re-educate (often with a stronger connotation of correction).

Synonyms

• Noun: schooling, instruction, teaching, training.
• Verb: to teach, to instruct, to train, to cultivate.

Related Idioms

• Vô giáo dục: (to be) ill-mannered; uncultured; without proper upbringing. This phrase is used to criticize someone's bad behavior or lack of manners.
  • Đứa trẻ đó thật vô giáo dục! (That child is so ill-mannered!)
• Có giáo dục: (to be) well-educated; well-mannered; cultured.
  • Một người có giáo dục luôn biết tôn trọng người khác. (An educated person always knows how to respect others.)

noun

1. education; bringing up
   • kẻ vô giáo dục
     a man without education