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can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It :[M[(
includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal O
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learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating YYRT.U'
politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain :G)<}j"sM
predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may `eRLc}aP2
lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from AH.9A_dG
infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process thatstarts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one’s entire life. v\ZBv zd
Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from AV @\ +0
one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same jiIST^Zq#t
time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, ^ua12f
and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an @XOi62(
understanding of the working of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the c!&Qj
subject being taught. For example, high school students know that there not likely to find out in their ~hURs;Sb
classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are t ,qul4y}
experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.
