tuition

Definition

The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], from Latin tuitiō (“guard, protection, defense”), from tuēri (“to watch, guard, see, observe”). Compare intuition, tutor.

Example Sentences

• "Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]"
• "tuition classes"
• "Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject."

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