formal education
Noun
Meaning
formal education (countable and uncountable, plural formal educations)
Education in a structured environment explicitly designed to teach students, usually in classrooms with certified teachers.
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Examples
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.