Doctrine vs. Education — What's the Difference?

Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina, meaning "teaching, instruction") is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system. The etymological Greek analogue is "catechism".Often the word doctrine specifically suggests a body of religious principles as promulgated by a church.

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion and directed research.

A principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief, as by a religious, political, scientific, or philosophic group; dogma.

The act or process of educating or being educated.

A rule or principle of law, especially when established by precedent.

The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.

A statement of official government policy, especially in foreign affairs and military strategy.

A program of instruction of a specified kind or level

(Archaic) Something taught; a teaching.

The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.

(countable) A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.

An instructive or enlightening experience

The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.

(uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

(countable) A self-imposed policy governing some aspect of a country's foreign relations, especially regarding what sort of behavior it will or will not tolerate from other countries.

(countable) Facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, especially through formal instruction.

Teaching; instruction.

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.

That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.

The activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill;

A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction;

The gradual process of acquiring knowledge;

The profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

The result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior);

The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979