Education as an Opportunity

Etymologically, the word ‘education’ derives from the Latin word
ēducātiō – meaning ‘breeding, bringing up, rearing’; from ēducō - meaning ‘I
educate, I train’ and from its homonym ēdūcō – meaning ‘I lead forth, I take
out, I raise up, I erect’. Education is the coupled process of teaching and
learning, where teaching is facilitating and providing learning, while learning
is the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Education can be either formal or
informal and any experience that has a formative aim may be considered
educational. Formal learning is a program of learning recognized by a
qualification or certificate, which is different from non-formal learning that is
not usually recognized. Formal education occurs in structured environments
like schools with classrooms and multiple students, and it is classically divided
into multiple stages: preschool or kindergarten, primary school, secondary
school and then college, university. Instead, informal learning is any learning
resulting from daily activities and experiences, and it occurs in a variety of
places, such as at home, work, and through daily interactions and shared
relationships among members of society.