127. ¿Se dice Orphaned as a child, he was educated by his grandparents o Orphaned as a child, he was brought up by his grandparents?

La primera frase solo sería correcta si sus abuelos hubieran sido sus profesores. Si no, está mal expresado:

He was educated at the same school his father attended.

For an elderly couple, the responsibility for bringing up a young child was a challenge.

Educated tiene que ver con la formación académica recibida en un centro educativo (colegio, instituto, etc.) y no debe confundirse con bring up:

He’s highly educated – he went to Eton, Oxford and the Harvard Business School – they say he’s very rude and bad mannered but that doesn’t stop people voting for him.

He was brought up in Scotland but his parents sent him to boarding school in France to be educated.

Sin embargo, well educated no es una expresión que se suela utilizar cuando nos referimos a la idoneidad de alguien para un determinado puesto de trabajo:

She’s perfect for this job in physics because she’s well educated.

She’s perfect for this job because she has the right qualifications and a degree in physics.

El phrasal verb bring up designa las circunstancias y el contexto que rodean los años formativos de una persona (generalmente desde el nacimiento hasta la vida adulta) y al tipo de comportamiento y los valores que ha adquirido como resultado de ellos:

My aunt brought me up because my parents were in Dubai but wanted me to live in England.

I was brought up in the country.

I was brought up to believe all people are equal.

En lo que respecta a los buenos modales, decimos que alguien está well brought up (‘bien educado’) si muestra un comportamiento correcto y educado hacia los demás; eso es tener good manners (‘buenos modales’). El término manners (con el significado de ‘modales’) se limita a esos códigos de buena conducta social y no debe confundirse con manner, con el significado de ‘modo de hacer algo’, aunque algunas veces puedan referirse a cosas parecidas:

I didn’t like the manner in which you spoke to him – it was rather rude.

I thought you way you spoke to him lacked good manners.