There is much discussion about what young people should do in their childhood and youth to prepare them for success in adulthood. Once the desired end results or the prerequisites for success have determined , it is necessary to determine the means or the conditions by which those can be brought about. Education and schooling are two terms that are often associated with these conditions.
While education and schooling are sometimes thought to be interchangeable, there are some important distinctions as is evident in these basic definitions:
Education The process of:
(1) developing the capacities and potential of the individual so as to prepare that individual to be successful in a specific society or culture. From this perspective, education is serving primarily an individual development function.
(2) the process by which society transmits to new members the values, beliefs, knowledge, and symbolic expressions to make communication possible within society. In this sense, education is serving a social and cultural function.
Schooling Teaching and learning that takes place in formal environments.