verb (v)

• give an education to(verb.social)

  Example:
  We must educate our youngsters better.
  

  source: wordnet30
• create by training and teaching(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  develop, prepare, train
  

  source: wordnet30
• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment(verb.social)

  Synonym:
  civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train
  

  source: wordnet30
• To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.(verb)

  source: webster1913