240. Learning

See also 233. KNOWLEDGE ; 338. QUESTIONING ; 405. UNDERSTANDING .

academicism, academism

1. the mode of teaching or of procedure in a private school, college, or university.

2. a tendency toward traditionalism or conventionalism in art, literature, music, etc.

3. any attitudes or ideas that are learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality. — academie , n., adj . — academist , n .

academism

1. the philosophy of the school founded by Plato.

2. academicism. — academist , n . — academie, academical , adj .

anti-intellectualism

antagonism to learning, education, and the educated, expressed in literature in a conscious display of simplicity, earthiness, even colorful semi-literacy. — anti-intellectual , n., adj .

autodidactics

the process of teaching oneself. — autodidact , n .

bluestockingism

1. the state of being a pedantic or literal-minded woman.

2. behavior characteristic of such a woman.

clerisy

men of learning as a class or collectively; the intelligentsia or literati.

didacticism

1. the practice of valuing literature, etc., primarily for its instructional content.

2. an inclination to teach or lecture others too much, especially by preaching and moralizing.

3. a pedantic, dull method of teaching. — didact , n . — didactic , adj .

didactics

the art or science of teaching.

doctrinism

the state of being devoted to something that is taught. — doctrinist , n .

educationist

1. British . aneducator.

2. a specialist in the theory and methods of education. Also called educationalist .

Froebelist

a person who supports or uses the system of kindergarten education developed by Friedrich Froebel, German educational reformer. Also Froebelian .

gymnasiast

a student in a gymnasium, a form of high school in Europe. See also 26. ATHLETICS .

Gymnasium

(in Europe) a name given to a high school at which students prepare for university entrance.

literati

men of letters or learning; scholars as a group.

literator

a scholarly or literary person; one of the literati.

lucubration

1. the practice of reading, writing, or studying at night, especially by artificial light; “burning the midnight oil.”

2. the art or practice of writing learnedly. — lucubrator , n . — lucubrate , v .

opsimathy

Rare . 1. a late education.

2. the process of acquiring education late in life.

paideutics, paedeutics

the science of learning.

pedagogics, paedogogics

the science or art of teaching or education. — pedagogue, paedagogue, pedagog , n . — pedagogie, paedagogic, pedagogical, paedagogical , adj .

pedagogism

1. the art of teaching.

2. teaching that is pedantic, dogmatic, and formal.

pedagogy, paedagogy

1. the function or work of a teacher; teaching.

2. the art or method of teaching; pedagogics.

pedanticism

1. the character or practices of a pedant, as excessive display of learning.

2. a slavish attention to rules, details, etc; pedantry. — pedant , n . — pedantic , adj .

pedantocracy

rule or government by pedants; domination of society by pedants.

pedantry

pedanticism, def. 2.

polytechnic

a school of higher education offering instruction in a variety of vocational, technical, and scientific subjects. — polytechnic , adj .

professorialism

the qualities, actions, and thoughts characteristic of a professor. — professorial , adj .

propaedeutics

the basic principles and rules preliminary to the study of an art or science. — propaedeutic, propaedeutical , adj .

quadrivium

in the Middle Ages, one of the two divisions of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. See also trivium .

realia

objects, as real money, utensils, etc., used by a teacher in the classroom to illustrate aspects of daily life.

savant

a scholar or person of great learning.

scholarch

a head of a school, especially the head of one of the ancient Athenian schools of philosophy.

sophist

1. Ancient Greece . a teacher of rhetoric, philosophy, etc.; hence, a learned person.

2. one who is given to the specious arguments often used by the sophists. — sophistic, sophistical , adj .

sophistry

1. the teachings and ways of teaching of the Greek sophists.

2. specious or fallacious reasoning, as was sometimes used by the sophists.

Sorbonist

a doctor of the Sorbonne, of the University of Paris.

symposiarch

Ancient Greece . the master of a feast or symposium; hence, a person presiding over a banquet or formal discussion.

symposiast Rare .

a person participating in a symposium.

symposium

learned discussion of a particular topic. Also spelled symposion .

technography

the study and description of arts and sciences from the point of view of their historical development, geographical, and ethnic distribution.

theorist

a person who forms theories or who specializes in the theory of a particular subject.

trivium

in the Middle Ages, one of the two divisions of the seven liberal arts, comprising logic, grammar, and rhetoric. See also quadrivium .

tyrology

Rare . a set of instructions for beginners.