It is sometimes difficult to give an unambiguous definition of the most common words. For example, education is both a process (obtaining knowledge, skills, personality formation), and its result. By and large, it is continuous, if we are not talking about the formal-organizational side, but about the essence. From the point of view of sociology and cultural studies, education is an important area of social life, consisting in the transfer and assimilation of traditions, knowledge, norms and heritage accumulated over the centuries.
A man is formed among his own kind. He receives information from the outside world and people even before he learns to read and write. From this point of view, education is a holistic and complex system that includes both knowledge and relevant skills - for example, hygienic, building relationships, communication standards, professional activities. But the whole structure of information about the world and man is not rigid, given once and for all. It is constantly being modified, supplemented, changed. A person learns all his life, his erudition is constantly expanding, and his skills in various fields of life are being improved. Family, kindergarten, school, technical school, vocational school, academy or university - these are organizational components. But we get knowledge from everywhere - from books, films, trips, conversations with other people. Therefore, education is a process of personality formation.
Formally, it is also an important component of public life. This concept includes all organizations and institutions that are directly involved or contribute to the acquisition of knowledge, skills. And here we can distinguish preschool, school, professional education, as well as higher and postgraduate. At each stage, taking into account the age and psychological characteristics of human development, the forms of transferring knowledge to him and their content differ from the previous ones. For example, a preschooler learns everything in the game, while for students and graduates of the university, the methods of education include, first of all, independent work with sources, seminars, listening to lectures.
The functions of the training system are not only the transfer of skills and knowledge. They imply a comprehensive development of personality.
Therefore, education also performs educational and training functions. However, the most important is the highest goal - the
socialization of the individual, preparing her for existence in society as a full member. Of course, both the content and methods of education today are strikingly different from those on which it was founded one hundred or two hundred years ago. For example, in a modern society, it is almost impossible to fully function without the possession of modern technology. Consequently, the content and
teaching methodology are based on the achievements of computer science, not only in high schools or high schools, but also in kindergarten - let's take at least educational discs for preschoolers. At the same time, the prestige of education is still high: it is it that allows a person to improve their social status, reach people and take a place in society.