Education began as a means for early humans to share survival skills like finding food, making tools, and cultural practices. As societies developed, education became a more formal process of imparting knowledge through teaching and learning, especially in institutions. Modern education aims not only to equip people with knowledge but also promote overall development of the mind, body, and soul. The real goal of education is to inspire people to live fuller, more abundant lives and improve upon the world around them.
Education began as a means for early humans to share survival skills like finding food, making tools, and cultural practices. As societies developed, education became a more formal process of imparting knowledge through teaching and learning, especially in institutions. Modern education aims not only to equip people with knowledge but also promote overall development of the mind, body, and soul. The real goal of education is to inspire people to live fuller, more abundant lives and improve upon the world around them.
Education began as a means for early humans to share survival skills like finding food, making tools, and cultural practices. As societies developed, education became a more formal process of imparting knowledge through teaching and learning, especially in institutions. Modern education aims not only to equip people with knowledge but also promote overall development of the mind, body, and soul. The real goal of education is to inspire people to live fuller, more abundant lives and improve upon the world around them.
Education began as a means for early humans to share survival skills like finding food, making tools, and cultural practices. As societies developed, education became a more formal process of imparting knowledge through teaching and learning, especially in institutions. Modern education aims not only to equip people with knowledge but also promote overall development of the mind, body, and soul. The real goal of education is to inspire people to live fuller, more abundant lives and improve upon the world around them.
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Education is the imparting and acquiring of
knowledge through teaching and learning,
especially at a school or similar institution. The earliest educational processes involved sharing information about gathering food and providing shelter; making weapons and other tools; learning language; and acquiring the values, behaviour, and religious rites or practices of a given culture. Before the invention of reading and writing, people lived in an environment in which they struggled to survive against natural forces, animals, and other humans. To survive, preliterate people developed skills that grew into cultural and educational patterns. Education developed from the human struggle for survival and enlightenment. It may be formal or informal. Informal education refers to the general social process by which human beings acquire the knowledge and skills needed to function in their culture. Formal education refers to the process by which teachers instruct students in courses of study within institutions. Talking of the modern day education, one feels proud; of saying yes I am an educated person. Formally or informally all of us are educated. Education is the equipping with knowledge. The overall development of mind, body and soul is the real education. Carter G. Woodson once said “For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better