2. Definition
• According to dictionary,
the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction,
especially at a school or university:
3. More about Education
• As a child he received most of his education at home.
• It's a country that places great importance on education.
• She lectures in education (= the study of education) at
the teacher training college.
• It's important for children to get a good education.
4. Examples
• I'm very fortunate to have had such a good education.
• They had a difference of opinion about their child's education.
• It's a disgrace that the government spends so much
on guns and so little on education.
• Most children in the UK remain in full-time education until they
are at least 16 years old.
• A college education is often the best route to a good job.
5. Education – cultivating hopeful
environments and relationships for
learning
• It is often said that we are learning all the time and that we may
not be conscious of it happening. Learning is both a process and
an outcome. As a process, it is part of being and living in the
world, part of the way our bodies work. As an outcome, it is a
new understanding or appreciation of something.
6. Education – being respectful, informed and
wise
• Education is wrapped up with who we are as learners and
facilitators of learning – and how we are experienced by
learners. In order to think about this, it is helpful to look back at
a basic distinction made by Erich Fromm (1979), amongst
others, between having and being. Fromm approaches these as
fundamental modes of existence. He saw them as two different
ways of understanding ourselves and the world in which we live.