Family & Education
Many agree that education is a purposeful activity directed at attaining sure aims, particularly the transmission of knowledge. But they typically embrace other aims as well, such as fostering skills and character traits. However, there are deep disagreements about the actual nature of education apart from these general characteristics. According to some conceptions, it’s primarily a course of that happens during events like schooling, instructing, and learning. Others understand it not as a course of but as the achievement or product caused by this course of. On this view, education is what educated persons have, i.e. the…read more >