Education

Education is a term that can refer to both the act of learning and the skills and knowledge gained through the process of learning. Education can be divided into two main varieties: formal education and informal education.

Formal education is organized teaching and training; it is the application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning. This is usually done through schools, universities, colleges and other institutions.

The term informal education may be used to refer all learning that occurs outside the context of a formal educational program. Those who teach get the sort of education traditionally associated with schools and universities under their own direction are called autodidacts. There are many who choose not to send their children to schools, instead giving them a homeschool education, or sometimes even a very non-traditional education through unschooling.