What is education?

cwes99_03 · 08-21-2006

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Originally Posted by Prolu2007

I would state that the definition of Education is as follows:

1. The act or process of educating or being educated.
2. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process.
3. A program of instruction at a specified kind or level eg. Driving.
4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.

Also, Option Three would be the second most favourable had I to pick another.
The development of people for society is why education would be very important in Ireland, I'm sure this is the same in other countries, as no formal education leads to underdeveloped economy and society.

A Pre-Requisite for Employment is too specific to 2nd Level School, however, you could also learn to drive or do a home-study course that unaffects your current employment situation. And transfer from teacher to taught isn't too specific because you will always have a teacher with you learning any skill, I think. But even so, it's too specific in terms of the broad definition of Education.

Seeing how education is a noun, the first is not sufficient.
Number 2 will suffice, as - what is obtained from being educated (in the form of a question, Alex)
Number 3 is called either a curriculum or a syllabus.
While number 4 is technically right, I believe it missed the point of the thread.

However I like your post.

cwes99_03 · 08-21-2006

How about the result of learning? Very simple. Too contrite?

LJP07 · 08-21-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwes99_03

Seeing how education is a noun, the first is not sufficient.
Number 2 will suffice, as - what is obtained from being educated (in the form of a question, Alex)
Number 3 is called either a curriculum or a syllabus.
While number 4 is technically right, I believe it missed the point of the thread.

However I like your post.

So what grade would you give my post after grading it piece by piece?

hallenrm · 08-22-2006

Education is widely perceived as the first and the second option, but ideally it has to be the third option. Thus there is a dichotomy between what education is and what it ought to be.

cwes99_03 · 08-22-2006

Could you clarify, as I have already stated that I thought 3 to be referring to what is actually known as a syllabus or curriculum.

hallenrm · 08-22-2006

Yes, but what I am referring to is education in the general parlance, not the mumbo jumbo of the so called educationists. To me, as to Sir Bertand Russell the famous philisopher, who has expressed detailed thoughts about education in his famous book, "On education"; education can only mean to develop the potential of a person to be happy and worthwhile!

Mercury · 08-23-2006

Education is... a process living beings would go through in order to have a better chance of survival. Or have I mixed up "learning" with education?

cwes99_03 · 08-23-2006

Have you read the rest of the thread merc? If not read it then come back to your question. I'm not sure, but I think it has already been alluded to and possibly answered above.