Why Education?

Abstract

There are many ways in which these two words are used but generally they mean:

• Training — getting a skill, usually for a job; the training may not help you do other jobs.

• Education — includes some kinds of training (for teachers, social workers ….) but also tries to add to your self development and satisfaction from

• In practice the two words are used in a hopelessly confused way. So in the rest of the book we follow common usage; if TOPS calls learning social and life skills ‘training’, so do we; if teacher training is called ‘higher education’ — so be it!