Interestingly enough, trade-marks are quite high on my interest level. I held and used a trade-mark quite extensively for 16 years but have let it lapse a decade ago (see previous postings on my philosophy).

Searching for education in the Canadian TM database gave these results:

Canadian Trade-marks Database

Your query was Search for: education in the TM Lookup within: All with a status of: All that were: All from 1 January 1865 to 22 January 2008

The search result(s) will contain the title, status, application number, and registration number (if it exists) of the documents.

Documents found: 457

Currently, it might be interesting for you to know that "EDUCATION" is a Canadian trademark held by DESJARDINS SÉCURITÉ FINANCIÈRE, COMPAGNIE D'ASSURANCE VIE.
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/cipo/trademarks/search/viewTrademark.do;jsessionid=00000_4Qui1iSOU4s6B_oZHXRQk:1247nfca5?language=eng&fileNumber=0621189&extension=0&startingDocumentIndexOnPage=191

There are another 456 examples.

In a marked way ...

Alicemac