gaining knowledge. Man cannot survive, as animals do, by the guidance of mere precepts. He cannot provide for

his simplest physical needs without a process of thought. He needs a process of thought to discover how to plant

and grow his food, or how to make weapons for hunting. His precepts might lead him to a cave, if one is

available-but to build the simplest shelter, he needs a process of thought. No precepts and no "instincts" will tell him

how to light a fire, how to weave cloth, how to forge tools, how to make a wheel, how to make an airplane, how to

perform an appendectomy, how to produce an electric light bulb or an electronic tube, or a box of matches. Yet his

life depends on such knowledge-and only a volitional act of his consciousness, a process of thought, can provide

it. Informal education is the sharing of this knowledge, and f

of little ~} 2: the field of study that deals mainly with methods of teaching

ormal education provides the building blocks to gain

out of a need to reproduce. In today's age we all know that a baby needs to be fed and sheltered. This

together. The ability to communicate enabled people to focus on more specific needs. Mr. Jones and Mr. Gates

need. Like the baby/mother relationship was created out of the need for survival, the creation of communication

enables a person to build upon this knowledge, not to rediscover it. With this a person can learn to how to make a

summer and not the winter. Mr. Dole could tell Mr. Clinton that the spear was a better weapon than the rock. With

Consequently education is summed up to be what you learn from a process or stage of development. Most

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