Why Education Is Important For A Formal Setting

Education is the gradual process of meaning making and acquiring “knowledge.” One views the world through his or her own set of lenses or filters, from his or her own perspective, and the mind of the learner attempts to connect new information to existing schema to make new connections. These constructions and connections in the brain become "knowledge." Therefore, knowledge when people begin to understand facts or information through experience and/or learning. We begin to realize, through knowledge, details that we learn in isolation are actually interconnected. Education can be intentional or unintentional and can occur everywhere and at any time. Education is greatly influenced by affective factors and social context. It has both internal and external value, both to a person and to all of society.

Education is the very foundation in which we as individuals grow, and formulate the knowledge we gain through life into meaningful ways of adapting to the world.

As age increases, so do the number of responsibilities assumed in our lives. We have careers, family that needs taking care of, and homes that need maintenance. These responsibilities can be obstacles when returning to school and obtaining a higher degree such as a Master’s of Science. Although there are challenges, the drive for higher learning never subsides in some people. In this paper, I will review my reasons for continuing my education and obtaining my Master’s degree in Nursing and discuss my short- and long-term goals as well as what challenges I may face to achieve these goals. I will also analyze my strength and weakness in

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published several recommendations on how best to meet the challenges of an rising patient population while the number of available nurses decreases Among these are to increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020, double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020, and ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning (IOM Report, 2011). This paper will identify how I see myself coinciding with these suggestions, and will point out how heightening my education will help me complete in the current job market and how it will affect my role in the future of nursing.

Education is defined as the lifelong process of acquiring knowledge, skills, and values through either formal means, such as schooling, or informal means, such as firsthand experiences or vicarious experiences gained through reading books or discussions. Every person that is or wants to be a teacher has his or her own educational philosophy. We all have our own views, methods, and curriculum that we were taught when growing up. A lot of people may have the same teachers in school, but all of them learn different things from that teacher.

This simple explanation for education, brings up many other questions, some easily answered such as can education happen outside of a school setting? Yes, education can happen outside of a school, if the last part of the definition is left off it does not take away from the idea that education is the action or process of teaching. What are we using to educate students? Most schools use some guidelines such as frameworks, curriculums, hopefully to help students gain a well balanced exposure to many subjects and areas, to help students become educated people. This leads into the question when thinking about education is who is qualified to facilitate the teaching? It would make sense that an educated person should be the one to impart knowledge to others, because they are educated. However, what makes an educated person? Does knowledge make someone automatically an educated person or are there other traits necessary to gain this distinction? This essay will look at the following characteristics of an educated person, knowledge and readiness, to determine why these are important distinctions for an educated

“Ed-u-ca-tion: the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at school or university.” This is the definition of education. Focus on those last few words, “especially at school or university.” Going to school and university is now just known as the “traditional” way of education. The “traditional” way is the most common, this meaning you use text books, pens, pencils and have an actual qualified instructor in front of you. You may think this is the only way. However, society is changing, education along with it. Education has evolved, it had become something bigger. An example of this is shown through “The Year of the MOOC” by Laura Pappano. MOOC is a “massive open online course”. Instead of going to a regular class

The term ‘education’ can mean many things. An education is the collective knowledge a person has, but what does an education mean? Although an education can be paid for, no one can physically give you an education, so it is not a gift. There are societal situations where an education is a necessity, but not many globally. Education is a tool to be utilized differently in every part of the world. Knowledge is power, but some knowledge is more powerful depending on your region. If you are part a primitive tribe in New Guinea, a person that is considered to be educated may be illiterate. Whereas in America, an illiterate person would have trouble functioning at all in society. Education is a tool that is to be

Education can be defined as a learning process in which a student and a teacher are involved. The work of the teacher is to pass on the message to the student while the student understands and applies what has been taught. It is also considered as a process of developing skills, knowledge and character of an individual. Education, whether formal or informal, has a function both to the individual and the society, these functions are either manifest or latent. There is a distinction between the manifest and latent functions in that the manifest functions are those that are intended whereas the latter are the unintended functions (Douglas, 2003).

Education is the process of learning that can take place anywhere and at any time. I believe that creativity and activity as well as books and lessons are essential to the learning process. As a teacher, I hope to instill in the children a sense of knowledge and self-worth that will remain with them throughout their lives.

For most of my life, I have been formally educated at private, Catholic schools in the mid-west. I have also experienced more informal education in the form of my classmates, teammates, and co-workers. In general, I feel very fortunate to have received the wonderful education offered at the various Catholic schools that I have attended; however, I feel somewhat unfortunate to have had limited educational experience with other religions, cultures, and socioeconomic groups because of that education. My informal education has been more diverse than my formal education, and I feel fortune to have had my informal education because it has given me more insight into the varying viewpoints of society. The most challenging portion of my education comes from my formal education: my junior year American Literature class.

Learning is as important as breathing, and drinking. It helps us to interact with people, and is essential to being social. We as people are social beings, being able to communicate, understand each other all come from learning. Formal education has high value because there’s structure, experts teaching you, however it is not essential to success since formal education can provide a different aura which both forms empowers the self. Alexander Nazaryan gives us an insight on the experience of formal education.

One benefit of a formal education is it teaches a person to look at the world with a multi-facet perspective. There is always a surface view of the world and then there are many underlining concepts at the core of that surface view. For example, take the movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin. On the surface, this is a movie about a 40 year-old man named Andy, who has never been sexually intimate with a woman before and lives a mundane life alone. Andy has been working with the same people for over three years, but it obvious the way his co-workers treat him that he does not have close relationships with any of them. However, this all changes when his co-workers Jay, Cal, and David need an extra person to play poker with after

Formal Education is the pathway to become successful as a student. With Formal Education, it benefits the growth of the student's mind. Formal Education helps build on the students critical thinking skills. Critical Thinking allows the students to develop new ways to look at certain topics or discussions with a deeper meaning. As a student, many obstacle of judgement and peer pressure will arise during our time as a student. Cultural myths can affect a way a student will most likely run into a specific group that will try to manipulate you into their thought process. Within Colombo’s essay he states “But as a culture binds us together, it also selectively blinds us” (3) Therefore blocking the formation of identity of the student

The Cambridge dictionary defines education in British English as the process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college, or the knowledge that you get from this. It is clear this definition divide into two parts, one is on the behalf of educators and the educated, the other emphasizes the result of the process that knowledge is obtained. The former focus on the activity of the teacher delivering knowledge our students receiving knowledge while the latter counts the result of this activity.