education為名詞，其動詞為educate，形容詞為educational和educated。

1. education n.

（1）a process of teaching, training and learning, Especially in schools or colleges, to improve knowledge and skills（尤指學(xué)校）教育

（2）a particular kind of teaching and training教育，培養(yǎng)，訓(xùn)練

（3）the institutions or people involved in teaching or training教育機(jī)構(gòu)，教育界人士

（4）the subject of study that deals with how to teach教育學(xué)

（5）an interesting experience that teaches you something有教益的經(jīng)歷

2. educational adj. connected with education; providing education教育的，有關(guān)教育的，有教育意義的

這里要說明一點(diǎn)，只有動詞才有過去式和過去分詞形式。

3. educate v.

（1）to teach somebody over a period of time at a school, university, etc.（在學(xué)校）教育

（2）educate sb. in/on sth.：to teach somebody about something or how to do something教導(dǎo)，教養(yǎng)，訓(xùn)練

動詞educate的過去式是educated，過去分詞也是educated，現(xiàn)在分詞是educating。同時，它的過去分詞和現(xiàn)代分詞都可以做形容詞。