Hm. I had always assumed Education was the social equivalent of "Boot Camp", while I refer to the actual teachings of skills and theoretical knowledge as Instruction.

According to etymology both terms are vague enough that they could work. Instruction would be like "inbuilding" and "education" would be... "drawing out"?

Words are weird. They start as silly metaphors and then get so twisted and dried up in the sands of time we don't even know what they feel like anymore.

That was needlessly hammy.