ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

[stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)] drop out, leave school, quit school;
graduate; transfer; take a leave.
[cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick out of school.
[stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out; be dismissed &c
Adj. studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile &c (willing) 602; apt &c 698,
industrious &c 682.
Adv. at one's books; in statu pupillari &c (learner) 541 [Lat.].
Phr. a lumber-house of books in every head [Pope]; ancora imparo! [Lat.]; hold high
converse with the mighty dead [Thomson]; lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod [Gay].
540. Teacher -- N. teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director,
Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess,
duenna [Sp.]; disciplinarian.
professor, lecturer, reader, prelector † , prolocutor, preacher; chalk talker, khoja † ; pastor
&c (clergy) 996; schoolmaster, dominie [Fr.], usher, pedagogue, abecedarian;
schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher.
expositor &c 524; preceptor, guide; guru; mentor &c (adviser) 695; pioneer, apostle,
missionary, propagandist, munshi † , example &c (model for imitation) 22.
professorship &c (school) 542.
tutelage &c (teaching) 537.
Adj. professorial.
Phr. qui doet discet [Lat.].
541. Learner -- N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice † , journeyman;
articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian † ;
alumnus, eleve [Fr.].
recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor † , catechumen, probationer; seminarian,
chela, fellow-commoner; debutant.
[apprentice medical doctors] intern; resident.
schoolboy; fresh, freshman, frosh; junior soph † , junior; senior soph † , senior;
sophister † , sophomore; questionist † .
[college and university students] undergraduate; graduate student; law student;
medical student; pre-med; post-doctoral student, post-doc; matriculated student; part-time
student, night student, auditor.
[group of learners] class, grade, seminar, form, remove; pupilage &c (learning) 539.
disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student, condisciple † .
[place of learning] school &c 542.
V. learn; practise.
Adj. in statu pupillari [Lat.], in leading strings.
Phr. practise makes perfect.
542. School -- N. school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum;
institute, institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar.
day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's
school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school,
National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation