An educative experience.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : educative knowledge.    From Dictionary.com. 

Always, many people who fancy themselves intellectuals ... think romance novels lack the 'educative' value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local Authors Outsell The Da Vinci Code!] Reference

I think that good Art is useful for a particular kind of educative function, which need not mean a crude idea of 'social improvement'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Study] Reference

The sight of him, so sitting, tragically travestying man, has been considered, and is considered, "educative" by multitudinous audiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 33] Reference

So far as the rank and file of the boys are concerned, it may be doubted if the word "educative" is applicable, in any sense or degree, to the daily round of their work.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference

This is called the educative effects of law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa state trial court judge rules for gay marriage:] Reference

Advertisements will prove interesting and educative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

Picture books, educative value of kinds most suitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

Like the state boards, its first function should be educative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civics and Health] Reference

Toys, child's interest in educative value of kind most suitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

Art should help to exercise an educative influence on the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [William of Germany] Reference

That's what it is, you see; the greatest educative power in the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austin and His Friends] Reference

Doll, child's care of, an example of imitativeness educative value of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

It was merely a case in which educative processes failed to function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference

The educative Act of 1891 for British India has also been noted above.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference

Books, child's attitude towards educative value of kinds most suitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

The other side of the Food Campaign is the propaganda and educative work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women and War Work] Reference

It endeavors to fill one full of life, and human experience during the educative process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

What is popularly said about the educative force of journalism is, for the most part, baseless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

Music is an educative factor of prime importance, and promotes the evolution of good hereditary traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

There can be no doubt that a sojourn in equatorial regions is one of the most educative of experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference

He also enjoys to a far greater degree the protective and educative attention of real neighborhood life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference

Or take another example of the educative effect of a study of English -- I can vouch for its genuineness.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference

Public sentiment must be educated up to the law; and the existence of the law is itself of educative value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of Conduct] Reference

The discussion was as to the educative value of the study of the classics compared with that of the sciences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898] Reference

The public library is an educative agency that serves its constituency as faithfully as the school and the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

His alertness makes him open to educative influences, but it may also show itself in such ways as that just noted.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference

Now, ye are the fields of the plain of Reality and are under the protection of the educative rays of the Sun of Truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference

If, however, the child is selected for a course of higher education, the educative process becomes different in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children: Some Educational Problems] Reference

He believed in the Idea; he saw it, with Wallingham, not only a glorious prospect, but an educative force; and never had he.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference

Motherhood and fatherhood are educative processes, greater and more vital than the artificial training that we call education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference

There is more or less effort to discredit books as educative tools and to lay emphasis on oral instruction and manual training.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference

But they liked to beautify their squalid huts with them, and she regarded them as an educative and civilising agency not to be despised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference

These queries are necessary to find the part which intellectual knowledge plays in the educative process, in behalf of religious education.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

Nevertheless, they are one of the factors and are connected with the educative process in such a way that any endeavor similar to the present one must consider them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

Undoubtedly one of the most important educative values that can be claimed for Nature Study is its influence in training the pupil to appreciate natural objects and phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference