Divine Word College of San Jose

General Lukban St., Brgy. 8, San Jose, Occidental Mindoro

GLAZE ANN V. VILLABESA

MBA – Research Methodology in Business

LESSON #6: WHAT IS EDUCATION

Tasks:

1. Write a summary about the notes.

As society becomes ever more complex and schools become ever more
institutionalized, educational experience becomes less directly related to
daily life, less a matter of showing and learning in the context of the
workaday world, and more abstracted from practice, more a matter of
distilling, telling, and learning things out of context.

As society gradually attaches more and more importance to education, it

also tries to formulate the overall objectives, content, organization, and
strategies of education.

For a treatment of education as a discipline, including educational

organization, teaching methods, and the functions and training of
teachers, see teaching pedagogy and teacher education.

For a description of education in various specialized fields, see

historiography legal education medical education science, history of.

For an analysis of educational philosophy, see education, philosophy of.

Education in primitive and early civilized cultures Prehistoric and primitive

cultures The term education can be applied to primitive cultures only in the
sense of enculturation, which is the process of cultural transmission.

As for prehistoric education, it can only be inferred from educational

practices in surviving primitive cultures.

In contrast to the spontaneous and rather unregulated imitations in

prepuberty education, postpuberty education in some cultures is strictly
standardized and regulated.

Education in the earliest civilizations The Old World civilizations of Egypt,

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Mesopotamia, and North China The history of civilization started in the

Middle East about 3000 BCE, whereas the North China civilization began
about a millennium and a half later.

Egypt Egyptian culture and education were preserved and controlled

chiefly by the priests, a powerful intellectual elite in the Egyptian theocracy
who also served as the political bulwarks by preventing cultural diversity.

Mesopotamia As a civilization contemporary with Egyptian civilization,

Mesopotamia developed education quite similar to that of its counterpart
with respect to its purpose and training.

Formal education was practical and aimed to train scribes and priests.

But from available documents it is evident that these pre-Columbian

civilizations developed formal education for training the nobility and
priests.

The major purposes of education were cultural conservation, vocational

training, moral and character training, and control of cultural deviation.

To obtain a priesthood, which was usually inherited from his father or

another close relative, the trainee had to receive rigorous education in the
school where priests taught history, writing, methods of divining, medicine,
and the calendar system.  

2. How do you personally define “quality education.”?

A good quality education is one that provides all learners with capabilities
they require to become economically productive, develop sustainable
livelihoods, contribute to peaceful and democratic societies and enhance
individual well-being.
A good quality education is one that develops a barrier to become a well-
rounded individual that will serve as an agent of change to the world.