schooling

/'sku:liɳ/

Thân thiện

A young rider practices schooling her horse in the arena.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The process of receiving formal education at a school: "Schooling" refers to the act or period of being taught in a school or similar institution.
   • The training or instruction of someone or something: It can also refer to the act of teaching, training, or disciplining, particularly in a structured manner.

Usage

• Schooling is primarily used as an uncountable noun to describe the general system or experience of formal education.
• It can be modified by adjectives to specify the type (e.g., , ) or duration (e.g., ).

Examples

• Noun:
  • She received her early schooling in a rural village.
  • His schooling was interrupted by the war.
  • The program provides schooling for children with special needs.

Advanced Usage

• "to have little/no schooling": to have received little or no formal education.
  • Many artisans of that era had little formal schooling.
• "the schooling system": the organized structure of educational institutions.
  • Reforms are needed in the national schooling system.

Variants and Related Words

• School (n/v): The institution itself or the act of educating.
  • Which school did you attend?
• Scholar (n): A learned person or a student.
  • The scholar dedicated her life to research.
• Scholarly (adj): Characteristic of or suitable for a scholar.
  • It was a scholarly article.

Synonyms

• Education: The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction.
• Instruction: The act of teaching.
• Training: The action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behavior.

Different Meanings

• Training of an animal: In specialized contexts, particularly with horses, "schooling" can mean training for a specific skill like dressage.
  • The horse's schooling for the competition was intense.
• Archaic: Reprimand or punishment: An old-fashioned use meaning an act of reprimanding or disciplining.
  • He gave the unruly servant a sharp schooling. (archaic)

Related Phrases/Idioms

(No common idioms directly use "schooling" as the core word. The word typically appears in straightforward descriptive phrases.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
2. the process of being formally educated at a school
   • what will you do when you finish school?
3. the act of teaching at school

Từ đồng nghĩa

• school