What does education mean?

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

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

PS. Maybe education should include proofreading .

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learning