Definition: 1. a. The name to identify a social use that results from people learning. b. The social institution that gives priority to transfer, sometimes by imposition, the accumulated ideas, standards, knowledge, and techniques to less informed members of society. c. Consists of novices learning to manage and expand the vocabulary and logic of social codes used by the most informed people in a society. d. The acculturation of newer, younger, and/or less informed members of society by more informed, usually older members. e. The primary social arrangement to prepare learners to earn the benefits of participating in other social institutions (e.g., economy, family, polity) and social arrangements.
2. (Satire) That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Education – The Devil’s Dictionary
Synonyms: EDUCATION is sometimes used as a colloqualism referring to any aspect of the social institution. SCHOOL is a formal organization to increase specific learning by students. SCHOOLING is the process of managing learning conducted in schools. LEARNING is the socially required result of schooling. TRAINING is the instruction of a learner to increase the likelihood of meeting a specific observable performance criterion, as in training a soldier for combat or a violinist for a concert.
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Education is the only social institution that gives priority to preparing people to learn to do what the most informed people of society do, including to revise and extend their behavior and social patterns. In this way, education fulfills its implicit purpose to provide continuity and change in society by defeating ignorance and expanding choices in society.
Toward this end, societies create and support formal organization, such as schools staffed with people and material to increase the rate of learning of each learner.
Historically, schools and their best rated personnel are those whose students learn to do what the most informed people in society do.
This standard includes preparing learners to extend and sometimes replace what the most informed do.
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- The Devil’s Dictionary (Captured 11-16-2013, 6:11 AM)