educational systems

Organized teaching structures

Educational systems are the organized structures through which societies transmit knowledge and skills to their members—schools, curricula, testing regimes, and the institutions that govern them.

The term usually refers to formal public education from primary through university levels: The Finnish educational system emphasizes student autonomy.

Different educational systems reflect different values about what children should learn and how.

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formal vs. informal learning

educational systemsautodidacticism

Practice of self-instruction

self-education · unschooling · learning by doing · life experience · apprenticeship

knowledge transmission vs. knowledge suppression

educational systemsindoctrination

Systematic uncritical belief instillation

censorship · brainwashing · book burning · anti-intellectualism · obscurantism

systematic vs. unsystematic approaches

educational systemstrial and error

Learning through repeated attempts

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