educationist

plural educationists

1. A specialist in the theory of education.

   And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.

   1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), London: Heinemann, page 123

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   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.

   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

   The educationist Ian Gilbert, in his book Essential Motivation in the Classroom, tells a possibly apocryphal story of a school in which revision notes were all in the form of mind maps.

   2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: educationalist