"Eton's view of education encompasses much more than just intellectual achievement," says the school's annual report.
The school day should be longer so pupils can benefit from the kind of "holistic education", encompassing extensive programmes of sport, culture, and leadership training on offer in public schools.
One of the people who have signed the petition, Kathleen Mason, wrote: "Education encompasses at its best the social, emotional and psychological needs of children and the more it succeeds in looking after the individual needs of a pre-adult the better.
Aside from a brief spell at an independent school in Bedford and another period in the Canadian state system, his was a state education, encompassing Maidstone grammar, Roundhay high school in Leeds, which had just gone comprehensive, and a comprehensive sixth form, Thornes House, in Wakefield.
In Germany, teacher education encompasses 3.5 to 5 years of higher education and puts emphasis on the development of professional knowledge (subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge).
Engineering education encompasses many individual engineering disciplines (mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, etc).. Educational innovations adopted in these disciplines may be as different as the differences between physics and geosciences.
Where Slow Food advocates for "taste education", Slow Sex could extend this to "sensory education", encompassing all five senses, plus a bonus sixth - the sense of dirty.
In fact, a liberal education encompasses the full stretch of human knowledge, enabling students to learn multiples ways of approaching complex problems.
His concept of technical education encompassed Friedrich Fröbel's kindergarten activities based around play and occupations; the teaching of drawing, manual work and science in schools; and specialised practical training of workmen and professionals in technical colleges.
As with professional preparation generally, nursing education encompasses the three domains of learning, the cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor.
