The document discusses the meaning and types of education, defining education as a process that leads to desirable behavioral changes in individuals through acquisition of knowledge and skills. It categorizes education into informal, formal, and non-formal types, highlighting their characteristics and objectives. Additionally, it addresses extension education, which focuses on the transmission and application of knowledge to improve the lives and enterprises of diverse groups.

1. EDUCATION
SUBMITTED TO
DEPT. OF AGRICULTURAL
EXTENSION
SUBMITTED
BY
Bhashkar
kumar
DKAC/033/2016-

2. MEANING OF EDUCATION
• Education is the process of desirable change into the
behaviour of human beings.
• It can also be defined as the ‘’process of imparting or
acquiring knowledge or habits through instruction or
study’’.
• They should be acceptable socially, culturally and
comically and result in a change in knowledge, skill,
attitude and understanding.

3. TYPES OF EDUCATION
1. Informal Education
2. Formal Education
3. Non-Formal Education

4. INFORMAL EDUCATION
• It is a life long process by which every individual
acquires and accumulates knowledge , skill , attitudes
and insights from daily experience and exposure to
environment at home , at play etc.
• Informal education is the wise , respectful and
spontaneous process of cultivating learning.

5. FORMAL EDUCATION
• It is highly institutionalized , uniform , full time ,
chronologically graded and hierarchically structured
‘education system’ , spanning lower primary school
and the upper reaches of the university.
• Formal education only prepares man to earn a living
more specifically for the jobs.
• In this education teacher is considered superior to the
taught.

6. NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
• It is an organised , systematic , educational activity
carried on outside the framework of the formal system
to provide selected types of learning to particular sub
groups in population , adults as well as children
according to their needs.
E.g.-Training of farmers , online free courses.
• It is open ended educational system.

7. EXTENSION EDUCATION
• It is also a types of education deals with the creation ,
transmission and application of knowledge designed
to bring about planned changes in the behaviour-
complex of people; with a view to help them live
better by learning the ways of improving their
vocations, enterprises and institutions.
• In extension education the leaners are heterogeneous
and have diverse goals.