TEXT A It is commonly believed in
the United States that school is where people go to get an education.
Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to
go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this
remark is important. Education is much more open-ended and
all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place
anywhere, whether in the school or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a
tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place .in schools and
the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from
a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child
to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability,
education quite of- ten produces surprises. A chance conversation with a
stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known about a religion.
People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very
broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long
before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one’s
entire life. Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific,
formalized process, whose genera] pattern varies little from one setting to the
next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same
time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do
homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned,
whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of government,
have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught.
For example, high school students know that they arc not likely to find
out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or
what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions
surrounding the formalized process of schooling. What does the author probably mean by using the expression "children interrupt their education to go to school"
A．Going to several different schools is educationally beneficial. B．School vacations interrupt the continuity of the school year. C．Summer school makes the school year too long. D．All of life is an education.