1. (

• educate ,
• school ,
• train ,
• cultivate ,
• civilize ,
• civilise

) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" ;

2. (

• civilize ,
• civilise ,

) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" ;