1. The implications of the word “educate”. To educate is generally taken to mean “to lead or draw out”, from the Latin e-ducare. Other more or less equivalent words in English are to rear (i.e., to raise) and to bring up. In all cases the notion of education suggests the following elements: a) the possibility of a change in the child; b) a certain direction and purpose in the up- bringing; c) the influence of the educ…