Education
"Educate"
redirects here. For the journal published by the Institute of Education,
see Educate~.
For the stained-glass window at Yale
University, see Education (Chittenden Memorial
Window).
Students at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Children at an elementary
school in Xinjiang,
China
Girls at a secondary
school in Iraq
Education in its broadest, general sense is the
means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one
generation to the next.[1] Generally,
it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one
thinks, feels, or acts. In its narrow, technical sense, education is the formal
process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to
another, e.g., instruction in schools.A right to education has been created and recognized by some jurisdictions: Since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At the global level, the United Nations' International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 guarantees this right under its Article 13.
Systems of schooling
School children line, in Kerala, India
Systems of schooling involve institutionalized teaching and learning in
relation to a curriculum, which itself is established according to a
predetermined purpose of the schools in the system.Purpose of schools
Main article: Education theory#Normative theories of education
Examples of the purpose of schools include:[3] develop
reasoning about perennial questions, master the methods of scientific inquiry,
cultivate the intellect, create positive change agents. The purpose and goal of
the school is to teach pupils how to think.