Could there be any difference between education and schooling?

To draw a line between the two words has been a daunting thing to many people that is why almost everyone sort to know if there exists a difference and what are these differences like?

There was a very point in time I never thought a difference exists between education and schooling until I came across some philosophical books on how man began to question things in his environment starting from the ancient Greek city and how he was able to learn outside the four walls of the classroom. And then, what brought about schooling.

A book by Napoleon Hill titled “Think and grow rich” also helped me to think deep into this.

The book shaped my thoughts about what education and schooling are all about and the one every person needs the most. Want to find out? Then read on.

If you have been wondering of what difference exist between schooling and education, trust me this post will clear your doubts.

By the way, what is schooling?
So many scholars believe schooling to involve the activities often carried out within the four walls of a classroom.

This method of learning often requires the attention or services of a skilled person in a particular area of study who assumes the role of a teacher or a lecturer where people who sit to learn can be referred to as pupil or students depending on their academic level in the schooling system.

In other words, whatsoever knowledge you acquire in school, they are all geared towards the quality and scheme which that particular school chooses to operate on, and at the end, candidates are expected to write and pass tests/exams.

What is education?
A lot of problems could arise, trying to explain the word education as many people have a different opinion as regards to what education is and as such, it leaves the meaning to be what people take it to be.

Education has different meanings according to different authors and philosophical materials. But here’s what we have to say:

Education includes but not limited to growing the ability to think, learning, to understand, to perform, and to take action etc.

According to Britannica, as written by Joseph Albert Lauwery et al, Education is:

[i]The transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In this sense, it is equivalent to what social scientists term socialization or enculturation.

Education is designed to guide them in learning a culture, molding their behavior in the ways of adulthood, and directing them toward their eventual role in society. In the most primitive c[/i]ultures, there is often little formal learning—little of what one would ordinarily call school or classes or teachers.

Instead, the entire environment and all activities are frequently viewed as school and classes, and many or all adults act as teachers. As societies grow more complex, however, the quantity of knowledge to be passed on from one generation to the next becomes more than any one person can know, and, hence, there must evolve more selective and efficient means of cultural transmission. The outcome is formal education—the school and the specialist called the teacher.

Primarily in my country Nigeria and according to our tradition, parents are always saddled with the responsibilities of teaching their offspring how to do so many things starting from basic domestic chores like; washing of plates, cooking and fetching of water from the stream including how to respect and greet elders. This is a traditional way of educating a child even before the advent of schooling.

The above is often referred to as education because it involves the process that inculcates in a child to learn how his people interact with things in their society.

This learning begins at home and requires little or no schooling to acquire.

On the other hand, education is much more than schooling because it can happen anywhere, and at any time.

It is broader and deeper than schooling because it is dynamic.

Education involves the identification of problems, the application of problem-solving procedures to achieve an objective.

If what schooling offers cannot be applied to solve real-life problems, then, education has not taken place.

If what schooling offers cannot instigate change in the behavior of a person, then education has not occurred.

Furthermore…

Whereas schooling teaches you what you need to know, an education teaches you how to ask questions like, “why do I need to know this?” “How does this fit in with the other things I know?” “How does it fit in with what I see in the world around me.“

It’s not just what we do but why we do it and whether we should be doing it that way.

Schooling makes you a functional person. Education makes you a well-rounded, analytical, active participant in the world around you.

Reasons why people should stop mistaking schooling for education:
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