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Education encompasses teaching and learning
specific skills, and also something less tangible
but more profound: the imparting of knowledge,
good judgements and wisdom. One of the
fundamental goals of education is to impart
culture across the generation's socialization.
Education begins the minute a baby is born and is
life-long. Education may even begin before birth
as evidenced by some parents playing music or
reading to the baby in the womb in the hope it will
influence (educate) their child before birth. For
some, the struggles and triumphs of daily life are
far more instructive than formal schooling (Thus
Mark Twain: "I never let school interfere with my
education.") Family members have an
educational effect which is quite profound -- often
more profound than they realize -- though family
teaching techniques may be highly informal.

Formal education occurs when society makes a

commitment to educate people, usually the
young. Formal education can be systematic and
thorough, but the sponsoring group may seek
selfish advantages when shaping impressionable
young scholars.

Life-long or adult education has become

widespread. Many adults have given up the
notion that only children belong in school. Many
adults are enrolled in post-secondary education
schools, both part-time and full time, where they
are often classified as non-traditional students in
order to distinguish them administratively from
young adults entering directly from high school.

Computing devices can change when and where

we learn. This is the computer based or
networked learning structures, in which people
contribute to each others' education. It is defined
as online education (a subset of distance
education), the European Graduate School as a
University operates during the summer, it serves
as a meeting point for people that have
participated in online forums through the
academic year, and this methodology is a break
to the traditional educational system.

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The first thing that strikes me about education is
knowledge gain. Education gives us the
knowledge of the world around us. It develops in
us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build
opinions and have points of view on everything in
life. People debate over the subject of whether
education is the only thing that gives knowledge.
Some say, education is the process of gaining
information about the surrounding world while
knowledge is something very different. They are
partly right. But the conversion of information to
knowledge is possible because of education.
Education makes us capable of interpreting rightly
the things perceived. Education is not about
lessons and poems in textbooks. It is about the
lessons of life.

The words 'cultivate' and 'civilize' are almost

synonymous to the word 'educate'. That says it!
Education is important as it teaches us the right
behavior, the good manners thus making us
civilized. It teaches us how to lead our lives.
Education is the basis of culture and civilization.

It is instrumental in the development of our values

and virtues. Education cultivates us into mature
individuals, individuals capable of planning for our
futures and taking the right decisions. Education
arms us with an insight to look at our lives and
learn from every experience. The future of a
nation is safe in the hands of educated
individuals. Education is important for the
economic growth of a nation. It fosters principles
of equality and socialism. Education forms a
support system for talents to excel in life. It is the
backbone of society.

Education is important because it equips us with

all that is needed to make our dreams come true.
Education opens doors of brilliant career
opportunities. It fetches better prospects in career
and growth. Every employer of today requires his
prospective employees to be well educated. He
requires expertise. So, education becomes an
eligibility criterion for employment into any sector
of the industry. We are rewarded for exercising
the expertise required for the field we venture.
We are weighed in the market on the basis of our
educational skills and how well we can apply
them.

Education is essential as it paves the path leading

to disillusionment. It wipes out all the wrong
beliefs in our minds. It helps create a clear picture
of everything around us and we no more remain
in confusion about the things we learn. Education
brings up questions and also devises ways to find
satisfactory answers to them. Education is about
knowing that everything has a science to it, it is
about learning to reason everything till every
question meets its answer. Education can lead us
to enlightenment. It is education that builds in
every individual, a confidence to take decisions,
to face life and to accept successes and failures.
It instills a sense of pride about the knowledge
one has and prepares him/her for life!

Schools and colleges define the basic framework

of education. Schooling gives us the fundamentals
whereas we specialize in fields of our interest,
during the degree courses. But education does not
end here. It is a lifelong process. Self-learning
begins at the point that marks the end of
institutional education. The process of self-
learning continues...