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"education" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often schooling (9 letters).
Definitions
Learning and teaching
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate.
Used in a sentence
“Good education is essential for a well-run society.”
“Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... Nuh-nuh-doin'-duh... We don't need no education... Yes, you do. You've just used a double negative.”
“He has had a classical education.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer18 curated clues
01“learning”9 letters
02“Classroom learning”9 letters
03“Formal learning”9 letters
04“Formal learning over time”9 letters
05“Formal schooling”9 letters
06“Learning at school”9 letters
07“Learning through school”9 letters
08“Long process of learning”9 letters
09“Long-term learning process”9 letters
10“School learning”9 letters
11“School-based learning”9 letters
12“Schooling”9 letters
13“Schooling and learning”9 letters
14“Schooling and study”9 letters
15“Schooling over years”9 letters
16“Schooling process”9 letters
17“What schools provide”9 letters
18“Learning process”9 letters
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