![]() ![]() It may be structured according to educational arrangements, but in a more flexible manner, and usually takes place in community-based, workplace-based or civil society-based settings. ![]() Nonformal education occurs as addition or alternative to formal education. In most regions, formal education is compulsory up to a certain age and commonly divided into educational stages such as kindergarten, primary school and secondary school. Formal education takes place in education and training institutions, is usually structured by curricular aims and objectives, and learning is typically guided by a teacher. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, non-formal, and informal education. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. ![]() Early childhood education through USAID in Ziway, EthiopiaĮducation is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. Left to right, from top: Lecture at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University, in Prague, Czech Republic School children sitting in the shade of an orchard in Bamozai, near Gardez, Paktia Province, Afghanistan Student participants in the FIRST Robotics Competition, Washington, D.C. ![]()
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