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English Dictionary: schooling by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
schooling
n
  1. the act of teaching at school
  2. the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?"
    Synonym(s): school, schooling
  3. the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Schooling \School"ing\, n.
      1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an
            institution of learning; act of teaching.
  
      2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good
            schooling. --Sir W. Scott.
  
      3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an
            instructor for teaching pupils.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Schooling \School"ing\, a. [See {School} a shoal.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Collecting or running in schools or shoals.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   School \School\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Schooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Schooling}.]
      1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a
            school; to teach.
  
                     He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to
            systematic discipline; to train.
  
                     It now remains for you to school your child, And ask
                     why God's Anointed be reviled.            --Dryden.
  
                     The mother, while loving her child with the
                     intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself
                     to hope for little other return than the waywardness
                     of an April breeze.                           --Hawthorne.
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