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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?

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. 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:

* 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.