... argue that this definition is too abstract and has an intellectualism and elitist bias. Education is closely related with the terms of learning and teaching. Teaching is sometimes used as a synonym to education. Learning is the process in of acquiring new information or mastering of a new skill (Hirst and Peters, 1970). According to Peters (1966), "being educated " entails that: (i) one has ... ...

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... see the connections between their classroom activities and what was going on in the world outside the school" (pp. 415). Dewey's View of the Environment In Dewey's lexicon, situation is a synonym for milieu or environment, the social medium by means of which education takes place - its background, or surroundings. He was convinced that the only "true education" is that which is ... ...

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