What does education mean?

Learning

For me, education is never missing an opportunity to learn something and to use this knowledge in life. Not always the academic stuff in a classroom either.
Like I'm off on a visit tomorrow to walk amongst a load of megalithic stones purely for aesthetic pleasure, but I'll create my own learning from the experience.

escaped

For me, education is never missing an opportunity to learn something and to use this knowledge in life. Not always the academic stuff in a classroom either.
Like I'm off on a visit tomorrow to walk amongst a load of megalithic stones purely for aesthetic pleasure, but I'll create my own learning from the experience.

Good for you! I have no intention of ever doing paid work again, but I still love learning for the sake of it - and I hope I'm still capable of that until the day I die.

My schooling was sketchy and scant, but learning has been one of the great pleasures of my life. I've studied for professional qualifications but my greatest resource has been the library.

Caitlin Moran says she pretty much educated herself at the library and I feel the same. If we lose libraries I think a great many people, especially children will suffer.

Education means understanding cause and effect, placing experiences in long term memory and retrieving these memories to understand thus adding even more to memory.

Learning and educating are not the same.

Macadia

Education means understanding cause and effect, placing experiences in long term memory and retrieving these memories to understand thus adding even more to memory.

Learning and educating are not the same.

I agree that learning is something the learner does, while educating is something a "learner" has to them.

What's the difference between educating, instructing and training?

Expanding one's mind acquiring knowledge, which can be more satisfactory doing it of one's own volition, rather than laid down by standardised education, at times between narrow parameters.

I’ve always thought you can’t get closer than the

Skills
Attitudes
Concepts
Knowledge

Of the old HMI. You need the complete package in order to be educate or be educated.

Myself I think an educated person is able to approach a subject impartially, or at least recognise their own bias, and form a reasoned judgment.

Typo ... In my previous post, it should read "a learner has done to them".

PS. Maybe education should include proofreading .

I think we are all old enough that is time we make some more better mistakes.

Educating and instructing seem the same but training seems luke a practice.

Can one (with no learning disabilities) not learn while receiving education?

GNHQ: where's the spell checker ??

Learning and educating are not the same.
Indeed.
Educating is normally more structured, narrower, learning is bigger altogether. There are some of us who dislike being "taught" without allowing us to discover our own ways of doing things. I am not an exponent of educating for the sake of it, but I do see the benefit in training the brain to learn from all experiences.
If you get what I mean.

escaped

For me, education is never missing an opportunity to learn something and to use this knowledge in life. Not always the academic stuff in a classroom either.
Like I'm off on a visit tomorrow to walk amongst a load of megalithic stones purely for aesthetic pleasure, but I'll create my own learning from the experience.

I agree! Education continues way beyond the classroom.

And, as the saying goes - 'Every day's a school day on Gransnet!'

"Do not start a sentence with 'And', Allira!"
"I will now I've left school, Miss Jones."

You can be ‘given’ an education without learning much from it.
It’s a two way street as you need to be willing to learn and to put in the brain work necessary to really ‘receive’ it.
Free education for 4 to 18 year olds isn’t a given in this world so it’s a shame that it’s not valued enough by all.
A good well rounded education can set you up for life and I thank all good hard working teachers for this public service to the children in their care.
Outside of school parents can help with education and the importance of libraries was also mentioned by a poster, for those children hungry to learn about life.Books! Wonderful things that they are.
Learning continues in life outside of schools and higher education by many means and the ability to think and process knowledge never really stops, or shouldn’t anyway.

Somewhere in the depths of my (now not so good!) memory, I recall being told on a course during my teaching career that the origin of the word education is from Latin meaning to draw out. It could be regarded as the process of developing a person's potential as they are helped to understand the world around them.

Educare - to bring up or nourish
Educere - to lead forth or bring out

It follows from that that education is the role of parents, in the first instance, then school and society in general.
In French ‘ education’ means ‘upbringing’, so definitely not limited to the classroom.
Instruction means being told about / shown how to do something.
Training, for me, is preparation for something specific: a skill, an event, a job, a career.

Once you’ve learned tolerance, respect and kindness for others. regardless of class, religion or sexual orientation, you are educated.

What's the difference between educating, instructing and training?

What Cabbie said!

These are overlapping terms to a certain degree where meaning has altered over time but speaking etymologically, education is about children (or young animals).

Educate is the more rounded; from the Latin ēducāre meaning to to rear, to bring up children (and young animals).

Education is bringing up a child with respect to physical, mental, and spiritual development. We educated children to eat sensibly, to take exercise, to be safe, to get enough sleep and so on.

It doesn’t have to be about book learning. An adult animal will educated its young in how to to be safe, how to hunt food and so on.

Instruction is also something taught; knowledge or authoritative guidance imparted by one person to another. An example would be religious instruction, driving instruction.

Training is discipline and instruction given (or received) for development of character, behaviour, or ability with a view to proficiency in it. So we might train to be an accountant, a lawyer, a teacher. We say: teacher training, police training, sports training.

The definition of univerisity is a body of masters and scholars engaged in giving and receiving instruction. In other words, we don’t go to university to be educated. We go to be be instructed.

"What's the difference between educating, instructing and training?"

The word "educate" comes from the Latin for "to draw forth" and it means finding and encouraging in someone the ability to discover meaning in the world around them. Among other things, that involves observing appearances and phenomena (colours, sounds, textures, and shapes, and letters and numbers) and sorting them imto categories. It is discriminating between small differences in these categories, which leads on to discriminating between small differences in the meanings of words, which later leads on to recognising what a writer wants them to feel by the choice of words used in a passage

"Instruction" is partly giving a pupil information on facts about that world around them which have been established by observation, exploration, experiment, careful thought and considered discussion. (history, geography, science, etc) and partly passing on skills which can be used in their lives (reading and interpreting written work for their own learning and pleasure, and writing their own words to record their ideas and pass thoughts on to others who are not present, manipulating numbers in more complicated ways than just counting on their fingers, and doing mechanical and creative skills with hands or tools.

"Training" is teaching how to do a specific skill in exactly the way that the instructtor knows it should be done, or how it applies to a specific situation. There is less room for individuality in training than in instruction, and much of it is learnt "on the job".

There is a lot of overlap between these categories, and other people may have other definitions.

That's interesting. To me, instructing is showing somebody how to do something, eg how to assemble an IKEA bookcase (!). There shouldn't be much critical thinking involved. However, university should be about critical thinking - more so in some subjects than others. It should be about skills such as analysis and evaluation, which aren't need for instruction.

PS. Come to think of it, assembling an IKEA bookcase is probably a bad example, as anybody who's ever tried to do it knows that it doesn't always go to plan and a little creativity is needed.

Learning is not education.
Education is understanding learning and using it.

That is where instruction overlaps with education. Lessons on factual things which should not be forgotten, such as the history of the location where the school is situated, based on old maps and writings and census returns and oral history from local people, can be linked with investigation of how dependable the sources are.