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INFORMAL AND FORMAL EDUCATION
1. Education includes different kinds of learning experiences. In its
broadest sense, we consider education to be the ways in which people learn skills,
gain knowledge and understanding about the world and about themselves. We can
divide education into informal and formal.
2. Informal education involves people in learning during their daily life.
For example, children learn their language simply by hearing and by trying to
speak themselves. In the same informal manner, they learn to eat with good
manners, to ride a bicycle, or to make a telephone call. Education is also informal
when people try to get information or to learn skills on their own initiative without
a teacher. To do so, they may visit a book shop, library or museum. They may
watch a television show, see a videotape, or listen to a radio programme. They do
not have to pass tests or exams.
3. We consider formal education to be the instruction given at different
kinds of schools, colleges, universities. In most countries, people enter a system of
formal education during their early childhood. In this type of education, the
people, who are in charge of education, decide what to teach. Then learners study
those things with the teachers at the head, then they have to pass the exams to
show how well they have progressed in their learning. At the end of their learning,
learners may earn a diploma, a certificate, or a degree as a mark of their success
over the years.