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Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, good judgement and wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental goals the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education is 'to draw out'. This means facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. The education of an individual human begins after birth and continues throughout life. Some believe that education begins even before birth, as evidenced by some parents' playing music or reading to the baby in the womb in the hope it will influence the child's development. For some, the struggles and triumphs of daily life provide far more instruction than does formal schooling (thus Mark Twain's admonition to "never let school interfere with your education"). Family members may have a profound educational effect — often more profound than they realize — though family teaching may function very informally; but formality only proves the education outside the family that is also being taught. More about... education and its educators, history, philosophy, psychology, technology Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole. The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". By extension Academia has come to connote the cultural accumulation of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations and its practitioners. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning. The English adopted the form academy while the French adopted the forms academe and académie. Some sociologists have divided, but not limited, academia into four basic historical types: ancient academia, early academia, academic societies and the modern university. There are at least two models of academia: a European model developed since ancient times, as well as an American model developed by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-18th century and Thomas Jefferson in the early 19th century. Memorial Hall is the civil war monument that now serves as Sanders Theater and the Annenberg freshman dining hall at Harvard University. Latest education Wikinews January 21: Detroit teachers stage sickout to protest working conditions as Obama visits October 28: Time magazine names Ahmed Mohamed to 'Most Influential Teens of 2015' October 23: Masked man kills two in sword attack at Swedish school October 4: Several dead in Oregon college shootings September 22: Texas student Ahmed Mohamed inspires social movement August 2: Local municipalities in Italy ask taxes from religious schools April 22: Student kills teacher in Barcelona March 4: Beverly Hall, indicted public school superintendent, dies aged 68 John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. He also is known as the father of functional psychology; he was a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S. education during the first half of the 20th century. “ It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. ” — Albert Einstein Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, 1951 Knowledge: The confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose… Learning: The process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, through study, experience, or teaching… Pedagogy: The art or science of teaching… List of topics · More Glossary terms... Education (book) Academic institutions: Universities and colleges • Schools (High schools and secondary schools, Middle schools, Primary and elementary schools) Alternative education: Education reform • Homeschooling • Religious education • Special education Education by country: Australia • Brazil • Canada • China • France • Germany • India • Israel • Japan • Korea • Nepal • Pakistan • Russia • Scotland • United Kingdom • United States • Ukraine Education by subject: Chemical • Language • Legal • Mathematics • Medical • Music • Physics • Public health • Science • Vocational Educators: Educational psychologists • Principals and headteachers • Teachers  • University and college presidents Educational: Administration • Philosophy • Psychology • General: History of education Template:/box-footer Education • Education in Australia • Education in Canada • Education in India • Education in Pakistan • Education in Nepal • Science and academia • Alternative education • Schools • School Years • Universities • Deletion sorting/Education ...that University of Michigan elocution professor Thomas Trueblood (pictured) received nationwide attention when the Chicago Tribune reported in 1903 that he was offering a new "course in love making"? ...that there is currently significant controversy on college and university rankings like those used for business school rankings because some of the methodologies are deemed misleading? ...that that as President of the College of New Jersey, John Maclean, Jr. conveyed a Doctor of Laws degree to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War? ...that William Fawcett, a character actor in B-films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s, held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career? ...that race car journalist and former race car driver Dr. Dick Berggren decided to stop teaching college psychology after he was called into the college president's office because he parked his racecar in the faculty parking lot? 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