Definition of education

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Education what is it? It is defined as: 1. The act or process of educating or being educated. 2. The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process. 3. A program of instruction of a specified kind or level. 4. The field of study that is concerned with the pedagogy of teaching and learning, according to the American Heritage dictionary. Its etymology comes from the Latin word 'educatio which means to bring up'1 But what does that …

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…or over time we will lose our ability to think for ourselves. Then we are truly 'dammed' to subservience. What type of life could that ever be? A life in which we could not have a true thought. We would be no different than a dog or cat or even a computer. Our ability to think is our humanity and without our ability to think we are not humans just creatures that take up space.