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Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The -F-,
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distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important. Bk4|i k}  
Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It ^#j{9FpPs  
can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It =$%_asQJ  
includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal  -L y A  
learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating 771r(X?Fa  
politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain .`N&,& H  
predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may yi1V\8DC  
lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from Bdf]?s[]  
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. /\uW[
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Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from :sb+jk  
one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same ^cYt4NHXn  
time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, WO6;K]  
and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an K"ytE2:3  
understanding of the working of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the c:G0 =5  
subject being taught. For example, high school students know that there not likely to find out in their QW"BGg~6c  
classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are ?9AtFT  
experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.