The phrase "encouraging education" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about the importance and value of education. For example, "Our government is aiming to make positive changes to our education system by encouraging education for all students."
His philanthropy included endowing two professorships at Harvard and encouraging education about the Holocaust.
Ronald Mayhew, now retired, said he was a strict father who enforced discipline while encouraging education and religious faith.
He later learned English and in 1814 settled in Calcutta (Kolkata), where he was prominent in the movement for encouraging education of a Western type.
Is it too obvious to mention that the president, who long scorned nation-building abroad while encouraging education here at home, is now clearly choosing the former over the latter?
For example, in March 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, a North Carolina ex-slave named Peter Price walked into the local office of the Freedmen's Bureau, a federal agency established to regulate the transition from slavery to freedom by enforcing labor contracts, adjudicating disputes, encouraging education and, at times, distributing rations.
So, when asked by those opposed to the N.B.A.'s proposed rule that would deny entrance to anyone younger than 20 years old by what right I would deny a 19-year-old (or a 15-year-old) his immediate shot at the N.B.A., I answer by the right society has to improve itself by encouraging education.
There he encouraged education by offering government employment to college-educated locals and sought to suppress human sacrifice.
His parents never encouraged education on him.
Chemical engineers work with governments and industry to encourage education policy and law-making initiatives.
He belonged to a clannish Greek family that encouraged education and ambition.
She encouraged education and believes that that is the key to success.
