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Education vs Schooling
What is Schooling?
Normally, children of age 6-8 are enrolled to schools and are promoted to higher
grades or classes depending on their performance. In all schools, be it public or
privatized, there are specific curricula intended for each age groups or grades.
When the administration of schools are concerned principle or a head-teacher
/master is in charge of the management and under his supervision there are heads
of sections, units and teachers in charge of classes. The students in school are
educated in classroom settings with teachers acting as resource persons. There are
occasions where teacher’s role is played by computer assisted learning. It is
important to remember in schools the teaching process is pre-scheduled , and a
rigid structure involves in everything including student
categorization,administration and promotion to higher levels. School education
eventually leads to university/college education.
What is Education?
The terms education covers not only formal, but also informal methods of gaining
knowledge. It includes formal means of education that start with schools and
continue to universities, post-graduate institutes which are high in the hierarchy.
Formal aspect of education is always systematic, pre-scheduled and well
administered by authorities. In addition, each stage of formal education leads to
higher levels in education. As well, more importantly all other informal means of
knowledge like learning from peers, in work situations, from sources like books,
online sources and free lecture sessions that take place outside educational
institutions are also part of education. When this informal aspect of education is
concerned as a whole, it is not systematic, pre-scheduled or properly administered.
Most of the time the learning content is not pre-scheduled, it is either random or
depends on the interest of the learner. Also, there is no specific stage that leads
from one to another in this case, for example, the concept of lifelong education. It
is noteworthy that the term education stands for both these formal, institutionalized
and informal, personalized ways of learning.
• Education is a wider concept that includes both formal and informal means of
gaining knowledge whereas schooling is the first stage of formal education in most
countries.
• Other than schooling there are higher levels of formal education institutions such
as university, graduate school, etc.
• Formal means of education like schooling vary from that of informal because of
the pre-scheduled content, administration and levels that lead to one other.
• When education concerned as a whole, it includes both these formal and informal
means of acquiring knowledge.
So, in conclusion, schooling stands for the formal education system that take place
in school while the term education includes a number of different sources of
knowledge both formal and informal.
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