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+date = '2026-03-01T18:11:14+00:00'
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+title = 'What is Education?'
+categories = 'philosophy'
+tags = 'education, academics, system'
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+# What is Education?
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+Education simply means "learning". It's a natural process.
+
+## Ratio of components in Education:
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+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. For example, 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:
+
+#### The activities in Education consists of:
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+* Knowledge: Reading, listening, watching, feeling, thinking etc.
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+* Understanding: Studying (literary, critical thinking, investigating), researching.
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+* Skill: Practicing.
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+* Experience: Time spending.
+
+## Read vs Study vs Research:
+
+1. Read: Reading is about watching or interpreting something/someone to gain knowledge.
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+2. Study: Studying is about interpreting a topic, going deeper and gaining some conscious understanding out of it.
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+3. Research: Research is about studying a topic and then contributing to it with changes from your end.
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+* Reading relates with knowledge.
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+* Studying relates with understanding.
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+* Research relates with understanding and contributing.
+
+## Knowledge vs Entertainment:
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+* 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.
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+- All these are taken from my notes, all of which I like to write and think about deeply.