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Differentiate Schooling from Education
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Equality and Equity in Education
Economic influence on Equality of Educational Opportunity
In the
present day we all know that school is treated as the most reliable, active and
formal agency of education. Etymologically, the word school is derived from the
Greek word ‘Skhole’ which means leisure. In ancient Greek, leisure places were
used for self-development. Gradually these places came to be known as schools
where teachers under a pre-planned system give specific knowledge during a
fixed time. According to John Dewey,
School
is a specific environment, where a certain quality of life and certain type of
activities and occupations are provided with the object of securing the child’s
development along desirable lines.
Since,
school works with pre-planned aims and objectives which ensure harmonious
development of child; schooling refers to the more organized form of education
that takes place in schools. Schooling is only a subset of education. It is learning
where children are given fixed and planned knowledge like-various formulas of
mathematics, tense, voice, clause of English Grammar etc. There is also the
testing of the knowledge acquired by children via exams. On the other hand,
education is not spewing facts and doing anything to pass an exam. It is about
inspiring the mind. Education is a wider concept that includes formal, informal
and non-formal means of gaining knowledge; whereas schooling is only formal
education, but its impact on life of individual is immense.
By a study,
it is found that Japanese formal education in schools hugely contributed to
their ultimate economic and intellectual performance. However, we find persons
making tremendous progress in their field’s inspite of zero contribution of
schooling in their life. Kalidas, Surdas, Rabindranath Tagore, James Stuart
Mill and many more did not attend any school, still they are eminent scholars.
They received informal education.
Therefore,
schooling stands for the formal education system that takes place in schools;
whereas, education includes a number of different sources of knowledge.
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