Learning is essential to humanity. It’s so embedded in our lives that we rarely consider what it means.
Learning is the process of gaining new skills, knowledge, understanding, and values. This is something people can do by themselves, although it’s generally made easier with education: the process of helping someone or a group of others to learn.
With educational support, learning can happen more efficiently. Education is also how we collect and share all the skills and knowledge we learn individually. Benefitting from education instead of having to build new skills and knowledge by ourselves from scratch is part of what it means to live in a society instead of in isolation.
Learning and education impart more than just knowledge and skills. They also transmit the values, attitudes, and behaviours we have decided to share.
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