Education can be categorized as informal, non-formal, or formal. Informal education is 【B1】 is picked up as we go through life — at work, in travel, at play, and from the mass media. It is largely unplanned and 【B2】 does not result 【B3】 any intention to get or give specific knowledge or skills. It is, in short, the everyday process of learning one’’s culture. Non-formal education is somewhat more 【B4】 . It is 【B5】 educational activity which is not associated with such institutions as schools and colleges. Examples of non-formal education 【B6】 the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, adult literacy and community center programs, and some 【B7】 of religious education. Formal education, in contrast 【B8】 informal and non-formal, is the system of schooling put in place precisely to gain greater and more systematic control 【B9】 the socialization processes.
These three 【B10】 of education may overlap(重叠). Informal and non-formal education may occur 【B11】 the formal context of schools. Non-formal education can occur in the normally informal 【B12】 of home, as when parents set out 【B13】 to educate their children. Television generally offers entertainment but may educate even while serving this 【B14】 【B15】 . it may present programs designed specifically to teach children to 【B16】 and to read, and programs aimed at teaching adults about philosophy, gardening, and home 【B17】 that are properly understood as instances of non-formal education.
In most industrialized nations, formal, informal and non-formal education occur as 【B18】 processes and interact quite harmoniously. 【B19】 . they may be in conflict with one another, as when one set of values and 【B20】 codes is learned at school; another in home and church; and still another from the mass media.