elementary education

elementary education
    n 1: education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and
         arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school
    

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "elementary education":
      abecedarium, abecedary, adult education, and arithmetic,
      continuing education, elements, first steps, graduate education,
      higher education, hornbook, initiation, introduction,
      liberal education, postgraduate education, primary education,
      primer, propaedeutic, reading, rudiments, secondary education,
      vocational education, writing