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general education

American  
[je-nuh-ruhl e-joo-kay-shuhn] / ˈdʒɛ nə rəl ˌɛ dʒʊˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. education that is intended to broadly cover important subjects rather than being narrowly specialized.


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Lantern slides with accompanying lecture may be rented at reasonable rates, such as "The True Sportsman," and "Personal and National Thrift," sent out by the Moral Education League, Baltimore, Md., for the East.

From Camping For Boys by Gibson, Henry William

Moral Education of the Quakers—amusements necessary for youth—Quakers distinguish between the useful and the hurtful—the latter specified and forbidden.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Clarkson, Thomas

Mrs. Harriet A. Eager spoke of the work of a woman's Committee of Moral Education in Boston where there was no law prohibiting the circulation of any kind of literature.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted

In addition to our suffrage meetings, I spoke before the Free Religious, Moral Education, and Heredity associations.

From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Hence the Ethics, where his attention is directed upon the formation of character, is largely and centrally a treatise on Moral Education.

From Ethics by Aristotle

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