education system

Formal instruction framework

An education system is the network of schools, colleges, universities, and governing bodies that provide formal learning within a society.

The term usually refers to public institutions and the policies, curricula, and structures that organize them: The education system failed these kids.

Critics speak of reforming or overhauling the education system when they see it as inadequate to modern needs.

Opposites
formality of learning

education systemautodidacticism

Practice of self-instruction

self-education · self-teaching · unschooling · school of hard knocks · street smarts

institutional presence

education systemilliteracy

Inability to read

ignorance · raw talent

knowledge transmission direction

education systemdeschooling

Removing educational institutional conditioning

democratic education · self-directed learning · discovery learning

Family

system, education

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