Education can be formal, informal, or non-formal. Formal education involves institutional teaching through different levels - nursery/preschool, primary, secondary, and higher education. It is structured according to a predetermined curriculum. Informal education occurs through independent learning and communication outside of schools. Non-formal education takes place in formal environments like workshops but is not officially recognized as part of a curriculum.

1. Education

2. What is
“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. Any
experience that has a formative effect on the
way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered
educational.
“We all know about education because we
all live the education”

3. Types of education:
• Formal education
• Informal education
• Non-formal education

4. Formal education
• 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. The
curriculum is a state law to ensure
equal education for all.
• This form of education is also
referred to as main stream or
traditional education. Beginning with
nursery education and is followed by
primary and secondary school and
finishing with higher education.

5. Nursery education
• Also known as elementary or
preschool education, nursery
education is the first step towards
gaining formal education. It includes
nursery school and kindergarten.
This stage marks the stepping of
the child from the comforts of a
home to the world outside. Nursery
education is usually given to children
between this age of 3 and 5 years.

6. Nursery Education

7. Primary education
• After nursery education, a child
is exposed to primary education
where he establishes his
foundation on various
subjects, like
mathematics, science, social
sciences and language. The age
of primary education and the
subjects taught differ from on
country to another.

9. Secondary education
• Secondary education is the final
stage that a child undergoes in a
school during his adolescence. The
education format transforms from
a comprehensive primary education
to optional and specialized training
subjects. The purpose of
secundary education can be to give
common knowledge, to prepare for
higher education or to train
directly in a profession.

11. Higher education
• Schooling gets over with
secondary education and a student
now enrolls himself in an
undergraduate and post graduate
college or university to receive
the highest level of education in
his subjects of specialization. Also
known as tertiary
education, higher education is a
non-compulsory level of education.

13. Informal education
• Informal education includes
educating one through informal
communication and reading books.
In general, informal education is
edifying someone outside the
basic form of education, that
is, in schools, and without the use
of any learning methods.

14. Non-formal education
• Non-formal learning is a distinction in
learning between formal and informal
learning. It is learning that occurs in a
formal learning environment, but that
is not formally recognised. It typically
involves workshops, community
courses, interest based
courses, short courses, or conference
style seminars. The learning takes
place in a formal setting such as an
educational organisation, but is not
formally recognised within a
curriculum or syllabus framework.