How to spell education

hear ited·u·ca·tion/,ɛdʒʊ'keɪʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The process of teaching and learning.

In a sentence: Education helps you learn new things.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as eduction or educaton.

Same family: educator, educational, educated, reeducation, educationist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Education comes from the Latin word 'educare,' which means 'to bring up' or 'to lead out.' The modern English word began to be widely used in the 16th century to describe the process of teaching and learning in schools.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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