Plural form; people or beings who are capable of being educated.
Plural of educable, used as a noun to refer to students or people capable of learning. From Latin educabilis + English plural -s.
When educable shifts from adjective to noun—'the educables'—it turns people into a category defined purely by their capacity to learn, a usage that feels oddly clinical but reveals how education systems have historically classified humans.
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