educationist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]educationist (plural educationists)
- A specialist in the theory of education.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 318:
- And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.
- 2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
- In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone.