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Education is a process that shapes the mental qualities of a human being. Informal education is a result of environmental influences (e.g. family). Formal education is a planned effort by society to shape an individual towards socially desirable goals.

Categories
Classical Education -- Reading? -- Math? -- Language? -- Science? -- Ethics -- [Religious education]?

Formal education
[Elementary education]? -- [Secondary education]? -- [College education]? -- [Graduate education]? -- Colleges and universities -- School choice

Educational policy
Literacy? -- [Standardized testing]? -- Education reform -- [Education vouchers]?

Informal education
[Early instruction]? -- Home schooling

Theory and Methodology
[Teaching methods]? -- Learning theories -- Learning disabilities

Biographies
[F. Matthias Alexander]?
[John Dewey]?
Hermann Ebbinghaus
[Maria Montessori]?
[Ivan Pavlov]?
Plato
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[B.F. Skinner]?


Education is not guaranteed by teaching but is evidenced by learning.

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