educationist

English

Etymology

From education +‎ -ist.

Noun

educationist (plural educationists)

1. A specialist in the theory of education.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 318:

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

   • 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:

     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.

Synonyms

• educationalist