Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, however learners can also educate themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy.
Formal education is commonly divided formally into such stages as preschool or kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and then college, university, or apprenticeship.
There are movements for education reforms, such as for improving quality and efficiency of education towards applicable relevance in the students' lives and efficient problem solving in modern or future society at large or for evidence-based education methodologies. A right to education has been recognized by some governments and the United Nations. Global initiatives aim at achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4, which promotes quality education for all. In most regions, education is compulsory up to a certain age.
Hello, I'm a freshman from New Jersey studying at The University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. I am studying electrical engineering now, but I am considering studying physics and math.
I enjoy electrical engineering classes, but I am more interested in a research field and physics has...
I was listening to Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Davenport has paid for and run his center for decades. Tonight he was complaining about the quality of UFO reports these days. Young reporters often cannot intelligently describe things like the angle above the horizon at...
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A group of fellow students and myself are nearing the end of the educational year and we would like to thank the phyiscs teacher thas has been our guide for the past three years. The idea is to buy her a book as well as a pen with an engraved proverb that will express our gratitude...
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"WASHINGTON - The number of Americans who don't have health insurance rose sharply in 2002, mainly because of unemployment increases and two straight years of cuts in employer-provided health coverage.
The number of uninsured Americans jumped by 2.4 million to 43.6...
Hi, I'm a grade 12 high school student who is planning on a post-secondary education in a Math or Science field (after another year of high school). I'm not exactly great at the stuff, I just don't want a job where I have to deal with too many people all day. :P
I'm a decent student, my grades...
I am a freshman in college right now. I am going to pursue a physics major. Possibly major in astronomy and physics. I was curious if it would be possible to get a masters in aerospace engineering if I had a gotten a major in physics. Any help in this topic would be greatly appriciated. Thanks...
Does education kill true dreams?
For me high school was a taunt. Between the kids and the teachers and hormones carries you away from what you really wanted to know. Do school formats kill true thought? How can you have a true discussion when there's someone there telling you you have to change...
Two things.
I dislike and have heard bad things about schools forcing kids to rent out of date laptops even if they already have one.
Also from my experience online college courses are terrible. You feel so distant from the class and the teacher. Most online courses use portals like...
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I am exactly half-way through a degree in engineering physics. At my school, most students are either in the engineering physics program or the aerospace engineering program. Up to the half-way point (where I am now), both programs are almost identical.
I don't really want to...
I'm a grade 12 student and I have always thought that our education system was flawed(I'm from Canada, although I believe the US have the same problem). I think what is wrong with our system is the rewarding of students with average IQ's with excellent work ethics. I believe that students with...