Monday 5 December 2011

Difference between School and Education


School vs Education
 
School and Education are two words that are often confused when it comes to their meanings and usage. Strictly speaking, these two words differ to some extent in terms of their senses and usage. School refers to the place of education. On the other hand, education refers to learning or teaching. This is the main difference between the two words.
It is important to know that school is an institution where training is imparted to the children, and the students in various braches of learning including arts and sciences. There are several types of arts and sciences. Arts are divided into fine arts and ordinary arts. Fine arts comprise of dance, music, drawing, painting, sculpture and the like. On the other hand, ordinary arts comprise of subjects such as philosophy, commerce, history, politics, languages and the like.
Education, on the other hand, is imparted in the schools. A person who educates the students in a school or in a college is called as an educator. Man becomes perfect by education. He becomes refined by education. He has to attend to a school in some part of his life, preferably the early part of his life to get educated. Man can put his education to nice use later in his life.
School imparts basic education to every man and woman in his or her early life. On the other hand, education is the manifestation of perfection already in man. Education paves the way for culture too. An educated man becomes a cultured person too. On the other hand, an uneducated man becomes an uncultured man. This shows that education and culture go together.
On the other hand, school is a place where a person is given education in almost all the subjects mentioned above. It is only when the student goes to college that he or she is given the option to choose a subject of specialization. Hence school is considered as the threshold of a college or a university.
In other words, a student who comes from a school or basic education alone is fit to study in a college or a university. School does not give degrees. On the other hand, it gives the certificate of conduct of the student that is necessary for the student to gain entry into a college or a university. These are the differences between the two words, namely, school and education.

2 comments:

  1. Stanley Oppong1 June 2013 at 22:49

    School is self-contained with the dissemination of Education to man, and Education is that which is earned by learning from an institution such as school. School serves as a bridge to Education while Education awakens self-actualization, which is knowing yourself.

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