education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching - the activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good teaching is seldom rewarded"

manufacture, industry - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"

system of rules, system - a complex of methods or rules governing behavior; "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender"

system of measurement, metric - a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic

orthography, writing system - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

Braille - a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals