schooling

1. 1
   noununcountable

   Formal education received through attending a school.

   He credits his early schooling for his lifelong love of reading.

   Years of schooling prepared her for the demands of university.

   Similareducation, instruction, tuition, learning, teaching

   Note

   The sense that ties learning to an institution: schooling is what you get by attending school, counted in years and stages, as in compulsory schooling that starts at age seven. That is why it can be set against education, the broader thing, in the quip "I never let my schooling interfere with my education." For instruction in a craft or skill outside school, the general sense of training is the better fit.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   Training or instruction in a particular skill or subject.

   Years of schooling in martial arts gave him remarkable discipline.

   The apprentice received careful schooling from a master smith.

   Similartraining, instruction, tuition, coaching, teaching

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle of school.

   He is schooling his apprentice in the old techniques.

   The trainer kept schooling the recruits until they finally got it right.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every meaning of the verb, not only teaching. Schooling fish are fish forming or traveling in a school. A team schooling its rivals is defeating them emphatically. An actor schooling her face is composing her expression. Only the teaching meaning overlaps with the nouns, where the -ing form names either the act in progress or, like the noun for training, its result.

4. 4
   noununcountable

   The training of a horse in dressage, teaching it controlled movements and responsiveness to the rider.

   Months of patient schooling produced a calm, responsive dressage horse.

   Her gelding's schooling improved after lessons with a new trainer.

   Similartraining

   Note

   A rider's word for the steady work that turns a willing horse into a dressage horse. Through progressive flatwork, schooling builds balance and suppleness and teaches the horse to obey the rider's aids. It works as a mass noun for the whole process (a horse's schooling) and as a countable one for a single stretch of it. It also pairs naturally with the verb: you school a horse, and the result is its schooling.

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