Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that
has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability
of an individual (e.g., the consciousness of an infant is educated
by its environment through its interaction with its environment);
and in its technical sense education is the process by which
society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, values,
and skills from one generation to another through institutions.[1]
Teachers in such institutions direct the education of students and
might draw on many subjects, including reading, writing,
mathematics, science and history. This technical process is
sometimes called schooling when referring to the compulsory
education of youth. For example, Samuel Bowles [2] and Herbert
Gintis, [3] Teachers in specialized professions such as
astrophysics, law, or zoology may teach only a certain subject,
usually as professors at institutions of higher learning. There is
also instruction in fields for those who want specific vocational
skills, such as those required to be a pilot. In addition there is
an array of education possible at the informal level, e.g., at
museums and libraries, with the Internet, and in life
experience.