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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
schooling
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
compulsory schooling/education
▪ 11 years of compulsory education
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
compulsory
▪ The use of education services has become more equal during the years of compulsory schooling.
▪ This will help pupils to develop a personal love of reading which will continue after compulsory schooling.
▪ To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally.
▪ This list is carried in publicity and in information given directly to pupils in their final year of compulsory schooling.
▪ Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling.
formal
▪ Although the formal process of schooling began in 1911 and terminated in 1929, the critical phase was between 1917 and 1927.
▪ Even Illich's onslaught is directed at formal schooling and not at education as such.
▪ One of the most significant was in the increase in formal schooling, particularly of the young.
▪ Then, when he was five or six years old, he entered a masculine world and his formal schooling began.
▪ There was also a massive expansion in the formal schooling system, with an emphasis on building rural schools.
primary
▪ But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right.
secondary
▪ Many of the requests are for practical, technical and vocational literature for all levels, from secondary schooling upwards.
▪ Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
▪ But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
secondary education/schooling/teaching etc
▪ A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education.
▪ All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
▪ During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.
▪ Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
▪ If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship.
▪ In practice, given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence.
▪ Remember that people were then leaving school at 12 or 14 and there was no secondary education available in the town.
▪ These differences increased during secondary education: children from lower-status occupational groups declined from their 11 plus position relative to higher groups.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Walter only had seven years of schooling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling.
▪ So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study.
▪ The conference will also discuss the legalisation of the use and sale of cannabis and whether denominational schooling should be ended.
▪ The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them.
▪ They would be helped enormously if other agencies of enlightenment, particularly the schooling system, contributed to the task.
▪ Unfortunately, Rose did not elaborate on the nature of such mixed schooling experiences.
▪ We hear terrible things of your schooling system in my country, and I've met a lot of you.
▪ We were lucky in their schooling.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schooling

Schooling \School"ing\, a. [See School a shoal.] (Zo["o]l.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.

Schooling species like the herring and menhaden.
--G. B. Goode.

Schooling

Schooling \School"ing\, n.

  1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.

  2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.

Schooling

School \School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling.]

  1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.

    He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
    --Shak.

  2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.

    It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled.
    --Dryden.

    The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze.
    --Hawthorne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
schooling

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

Wiktionary
schooling

n. 1 training or instruction. 2 institutional education; attendance of school. vb. (present participle of school English)

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WordNet
schooling

  1. n. the act of teaching at school

  2. the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school]

  3. the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)

Wikipedia
Schooling (surname)

Schooling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Elisabeth Schooling (1915 – 1998), British ballet dancer
  • Herbert W. Schooling (1912 – 1987), American educator
  • Joseph Schooling (born 1995), Singaporean swimmer
  • Megan Schooling (born 1989), South African water polo player
  • Tarryn Schooling (born 1991), former South African water polo player