# What is Education?

Posted on: March 1, 2026

# What is Education?

Education simply means “learning”. It’s a natural process.

### Ratio of components in Education:

50% Knowledge/Understanding, 30% Skills, 20% Experience.

### Education vs Academics:

Education and Academics are not the same thing. Academics is Education based of a curriculum and an institution. Plato discovered the word while describing his school of philosophy.

#### Academics system has evolved with time and got worst. Let’s see what the system has become nowadays:

- Wrong ratio of knowledge, skill, experience (knowledge takes about 90%).
- Generalised curriculum for all students.

#### Extra bad:

- Goals are only bound to exams/grades, degree or certifications (year 1088), then getting jobs.
- Unhealthy pressure and competition for students.
- Money game.
- Politics.

Education as a concept/implementation/system is good. Academics is good only as a concept. It’s implementation and system is always the worst and corrupted.

### Activities in Education:

- Knowledge: Reading, listening, watching, feeling, thinking etc.

- Understanding: Studying (literary, critical thinking, investigating), researching.

- Skill: Practicing.

- Experience: Time spending.

### Read vs Study vs Research:

1. Read: Reading is about watching or interpreting something/someone to gain knowledge.

2. Study: Studying is about interpreting a topic, going deeper and gaining some conscious understanding out of it.

3. Research: Research is about studying a topic and then contributing to it with changes from your end.

- Reading relates with knowledge.

- Studying relates with understanding.

- Research relates with understanding and contributing.

### Knowledge vs Entertainment:

- Activities that are done for Knowledge/Understanding (reading, watching, listening, studying etc.) can also be done for Entertainment and vice versa.

Example:

1. The first book was to provide Knowledge/Understanding, but later books became a source of Entertainment (fiction).
2. Videos can be used for both Knowledge/Understanding and Entertainment purposes. For example, for Knowledge/Understanding, there are documentaries, tutorial videos etc. For Entertainment, there are movies, funny videos etc.

- All these are taken from my notes, all of which I like to write and think about deeply.

Tags:

- Education
- Academics
- System

Categories:

- Philosophy

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