One of the most common ideas about education is that it is meant to prepare you for life. It gives you skills that are like tools in your toolkit. These tools can help you find a good job. More importantly, they can help you keep your job, or work your way to a better one.

These skills can help you get along with your co-workers and neighbors –though getting along with your family is a whole different matter! Education can help you stay healthy and live longer, and raise healthy, happy kids. It can help you make a good choice when you go to the polls to vote. It can help you realize that someone is full of crap, and it can help keep you out of jail.

More than all of that, education can make your universe a little bit bigger, by opening doors to facts and ideas you never thought about before. If something catches your interest, you’ll just keep on going. I’m interested in volcanoes, for instance, so I read about them all the time, visit new ones whenever I can, and even live on an extinct volcano!

Carl Sagan said, “It is the birthright of every child to discover the universe anew.” And every child does. We can throw facts and ideas at students all day in the classroom. If they can’t catch that idea and attach it to something they already know, it’s not theirs, and they never had it.

Teachers can’t just hand knowledge to anybody. You can’t buy it at Wal-Mart. Children and adults have to build their own knowledge by making connections. This idea has a name, and it’s a big word: constructivism.

There’s a side to education that scares me a little bit, though. If it’s done the wrong way, and even a little bit if its’ done the right way, education can be assimilation. That’s a big word that means people are beginning to talk more alike, and even think more alike.

What if everybody brushed their teeth with the same kind of toothpaste, wore the same style of clothes whether it suited them or not, read the same newspaper, and listened to the same music on the way to school?

I don’t think that will ever happen, though you do hear people say things like, “Everybody in the same country should speak the same language.” I think school could be just a way to make everybody more alike, if we’re not careful.

We do need to be a little bit alike before we can understand each other. Think about a three-year-old child telling a story. Now think how much easier it will be to know if you’re talking about the same thing once he’s been to kindergarten or first grade. We need to mostly spell words the same way if we’re going to understand each other’s writing, but we can spell many words wrong and still communicate with each other. Teenagers prove this all the time when they text message each other.

Just as important for getting along, though, is learning to tolerate and value our differences. I’m a Hillbilly from Appalachia, for example, but I don’t always think or talk like a Hillbilly from Appalachia. In school, I have met people from Nigeria, California, England, China, Russian, Bhutan, Guatemala, Tibet, Tuvalu, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Vanuatu, to name a few.

We talked to each other, and sometimes we disagreed with each other. But because we listened, we learned. Those people and experiences–another kind of education–helped me get beyond the accidents of my birth.

Definitely Education!!

Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others, but may also be autodidactic.[1] Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. Education is commonly divided into stages such as preschool, primary school, secondary school and then college, university or apprenticeship.

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means ‘to draw out’, facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology and anthropology. [1]

The education of an individual human begins at birth and continues throughout life. (Some believe that education begins even before birth, as evidenced by some parents’ playing music or reading to the baby in the womb in the hope it will influence the child’s development.) For some, the struggles and triumphs of daily life provide far more instruction than does formal schooling (thus Mark Twain’s admonition to “never let school interfere with your education”). Family members may have a profound educational effect — often more profound than they realize — though family teaching may function very informally.

Education is…

According to Wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education)

Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means ‘to draw out’, facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology and anthropology.

The education of an individual human begins at birth and continues throughout life. (Some believe that education begins even before birth, as evidenced by some parents’ playing music or reading to the baby in the womb in the hope it will influence the child’s development.) For some, the struggles and triumphs of daily life provide far more instruction than does formal schooling (thus Mark Twain’s admonition to “never let school interfere with your education”). Family members may have a profound educational effect — often more profound than they realize — though family teaching may function very informally.

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According to theFreeDictionary.com (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/education)

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 of a specified kind or level: driver education; a college education.

4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning.

5. An instructive or enlightening experience: Her work in the inner city was a real education.

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So basically education is the proccess of being tought of something important or essential to learn. For example you go to school to be educated.

Montessori schools are designed to help the children for educational purpose. So many Cherubs Montessori best play school in Koramangala has come up. To conduct an innovative way of learning methodology that explores Childs brain and helps do many things.

Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others, but may also be autodidactic. Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. Education is commonly divided into stages such as preschool, primary school, secondary school and then college, university or apprenticeship.

Basic of eduaction is to educate/teach ones to enable them to be more understanding of a situation, what is right to do and what’s wrong. And also for ones to gain knowledge.

With our education programs, teach the next generation sustainability.

Improve people’s knowledge and skills, influence people’s ideological and moral education activities.