What is education

There are many many research what is education. Education is a life long process. According to ‘O, connor the term education has three major components. They are a set of techniques for imparting knowledge, skills and attitudes. A set of theories which purport to explain of justify the use of these techniques. A set of values or ideals embodied and expressed in the purposes for which knowledge, skill and attitudes are imparted and so directing the amounts and types of training that is given. In wider sense education encodes all the influences which act upon an individual during his passage from the cradle to the grave. In narrow sense, education may be taken to mean any consciously directed effort to cultivate and develop our powers.
What is education? There are many scholars gave their opinion about education. According to Socrates ‘education means the bridging out of ideas of universal validity which are latent in the mind of every man`. According to frobel ‘education is a process by which the child makes it internal external` according to Swami Vivekananda ‘education is a manifestation of the divine perfection already present in the mankind` according to T.P.Nunn ‘‘education is the complete development of individuality, so that man can make an original contribution to human life according to his best capacity and according to Addison ‘When education works on a noble mind, it draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection.