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educational definition

edu·ca·tional (-s̸hə nəl)

adjective

  1. relating to education
  2. giving instruction or information; educating an educational film

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educational Synonyms

educational

modif.

  1. Academic

    scholastic, collegiate, pedagogical, didactic, instructional, institutional, school, tutorial, scholarly.

  2. Instructive

    enlightening, educative, edifying, enriching; see cultural, informative.


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educational Usage Examples

Used with adjective complement

  • cover: Our many other societies cover educational, cultural, political and recreational interests.

Modifies a noun

  • establishment: We may give educational establishments 30 or 40 per cent reductions.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: We were a purely educational body, we did not seek to become a ' party ' .

Preposition: in

  • nature: Software included in the BESD is educational in nature and available in the UK.
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educational quotes

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

-McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attachtoomuch importancetothenegative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl

To state as clearly as may be what means lie readyto develop a property-owning democracy, to bring the industrial and economic status of the wage-earner abreast of his political and educational status, to make democracy stable and four-square.

-Skelton, (Archibald) Noel

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