The Collaborative International Dictionary
Educationist \Ed`u*ca"tion*ist\, n. One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
Syn: educationalist.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one versed in the theory and practice of education," 1815; see education + -ist.
Wiktionary
n. a specialist in the theory of education.
WordNet
n. a specialist in the theory of education [syn: educationalist]
Usage examples of "educationist".
Money is given to people to get what they want and not as a basis for further acquisition, and we realize that the gambling spirit is a problem for the educationist and mental expert.
England has no great educationist or statesman capable of formulating a national system of schools which shall develop the intellectual material of the nation to its highest powers, and direct those powers into the best channels.
In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone.
These boys are predestined to crime, and no psychologist or educationist is going to persuade me otherwise.
These advisory and directive professions probably number two or three times as big a proportion of the whole population as the lawyers, educationists and doctors of the nineteenth century.
But our modern educationists are trying to bring about a religious liberty without attempting to settle what is religion or what is liberty.
Modern educationists would probably condemn it, but Gracey and Hobson were unashamedly old-fashioned, and they had this system of theirs all worked out and laid on, despite the superficial casualness of the place.
When novelists and educationists and psychologists of all sorts talk about the cave-man, they never conceive him in connection with anything that is really in the cave.
In the United States professional educationists have chosen the opposite course.
Unfortunately there are many professional educationists who seem to think that children should never be required to work hard.
For the trouble with American educationists, writes a distinguished member of their profession, Dr.
Whether professional educationists can be induced to change their current attitudes is uncertain.
She was fortunate in that her subject happened to be Lower School arithmetic, for, in spite of assertions to the contrary by various eminent educationists, the fact remains that the majority of children under fourteen like arithmetic even when they are not particularly good at it.
But our modern educationists are trying to bring about a religious liberty without attempting to settle what is religion or what is liberty.
We have matters of more immediate importance to discuss than my wretched brats, my little educationist!