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It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. kQp*+ras
Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The :`>tCYy;
distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. 6n| ][! f
Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It qDcoccE
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can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It Jp c % i8
includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal yMD3h$w3a
learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating 4aKppj
politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain VUO e7c=
predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may Yr\quinLL
lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from E:-~SH}
infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process thatstarts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one’s entire life. f&txg,W,yv
Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from MEM(uBYKOb
one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same $KhD>4^ jL
time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, #guK&? Fye
and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an JmeE}:5lpj
understanding of the working of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the 3dJiu
subject being taught. For example, high school students know that there not likely to find out in their j\NCoos
classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are C ^c <s
experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.
