Forms of education

Education is a process of drawing out the internal capabilities of people to make them capable to solve the problems of their life and adjust them to their social environment. This process is carried out in many forms. This process takes place from the cradle to grave. It is truly a life-long process.

People can get education both from planned and unplanned means. In ancient time, people used to get education in an unplanned manner. It was informal in nature. People used to acquire knowledge from direct experiences and they used to transfer their knowledge to their offspring. Their was no Barrett of age, place and duration. Their was no teacher and also no student. People used to acquire knowledge according to their need, will and interest. Many of such knowledge gradually vanished, because they were not property transmitted to others. In this way, society needed an institution which could property preserve their valuable experiences and transmit them to future generation in an organized manner which give birth to the modern schools.
Gradually, the education in school was organized in graded manner to develop it in a more systematic way. Schools developed examination system to valid the amount of acquisition of knowledge by an individual. They started to issue certificates as an indicator of acquisition of knowledge by the leareners. In this way, education from school became formal.
Formal education system limits education to schooling. It requires specific prerequisite to enter in this system. This formal structure of education podded many barriers for the attainment of meed based knowledge in terms of age, duration, place and prerequisite. This education is considered as more need based in comparison to formal education.