education in the basics (9)

I believe the answer is:

grounding

(Other definitions for grounding that I've seen before include "may preclude 19 [FLIGHT]" , "keeping home" , "hampering progress of high flier?" , "Rudimentary knowledge" , "Punishment by parent" .)

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