Education as defined by dictionaries is the act or process of
imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning
and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for
mature life.
Education is a process of inviting truth and
possibility, of encouraging and giving time to discovery. It is, as John Dewey
(1916) defined, ‘a process of living and not a preparation for future living’.
It is where educators look to act with people rather on them. (Mark K Smith, 2015)
In reality, education is not schooling, education is the
wise, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning anywhere in anytime, undertaken
in the belief that all should have the chance to share in life because we are
the ones who make life.
Indeed, we are the life, and how we are educated is the way
we think toward everyone and everything in the world, and how we think leads
our actions in life which in turn affects the changing or stability of all the
aspects of the world around us. And because we are human who are characterized
as social beings; our first concern must be how our education is affecting our
social life, and how our social life, which is based on our beliefs as a full society,
is reflected in our philosophies of education.
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