Meaning of three Rs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The basic education received in primary schools, especially (but not necessarily limited to) reading, writing and arithmetic.
   plural, plural-only
2. The basic precepts of any subject matter.
   broadly, plural, plural-only
3. Reduce, reuse and recycle.
   plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

““You shall teach⟳ me, and when I am a woman we will set⟳ up a school where nothing but the three R's shall be taught, and all the children live⟳ on oatmeal, and the girls have⟳ waists a yard round,” said Rose, with a sudden saucy smile⟳ dimpling her cheeks.”

“From these studies the schoolmaster would sally forth into his school-rooms, and instruct his boys in the religion, the fanaticism of Hugolatry. He taught them nothing else. Hugo was for him the three R’s, catechism and grammar, deportment and the use⟳ of the globe.”

“Elementary schools have⟳ already done a noble work⟳, but among many of them the demand⟳ has now arisen for something more than the three R’s and simple Bible-teaching.”

“Chapter 11: The Big C and the Three Rs: Chores, Relaxation, Recreation, and Rebellion”

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