Main article: Economics of educationStudents on their way to school, Hakha, Chin State, MyanmarIt has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high le ...
Main article: Educational theoryPurpose of schools Individual purposes for pursuing education can vary. The understanding of the goals and means of educational socialization processes may also differ ...
Since 1909, the ratio of children in the developing world going to school has increased. Before then, a small minority of boys attended school. By the start of the 21st century, the majority of all ch ...
Alternative Main article: Alternative educationWhile considered "alternative" today, most alternative systems have existed since ancient times. After the public school system was widely developed begi ...
Systems of schooling involve institutionalized teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum, which itself is established according to a predetermined purpose of the schools in the system. School ...
Education began in the earliest prehistory, as adults trained the young of their society in the knowledge and skills they would need to master and eventually pass on. In pre-literate societies this wa ...
Etymologically, the word "education" is derived from the Latin ēducātiō ("A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing") from ēdūcō ("I educate, I train") which is related to the homonym ēdūcō ("I le ...
Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or rese ...
