Teacher rejected elevating component of education? About time (5)
I believe the answer is:
tutor
'teacher' is the definition.
(I know that teacher can be written as tutor)
'component of education? about time' is the wordplay.
'component of' is an insertion indicator.
'education?' becomes 'rout' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'rout' written backwards gives 'tuor'.
'tuor' enclosing 't' is 'TUTOR'.
'rejected elevating' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tutor that I've seen before include "Personal teacher" , "Guardian" , "train" , "Private instructor" , "Master" .)