A report on Education

Young children in a kindergarten in Japan
Nepali village school students
A high-school senior (twelfth grade) classrooms in Calhan, Colorado, United States
Students in a laboratory, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Universities often host prominent guest speakers for student audiences, e.g. First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama delivering remarks at Peking University, Beijing, China
Carpentry is normally learned through apprenticeship with an experienced carpenter.
Teaching indigenous knowledge, models, and methods in Yanyuan County, Sichuan, China
A volunteer reads aloud to children in Laos.
Children computing by David Shankbone
Beijing Normal University, which is governed directly by the Chinese Ministry of Education, is an example of collaboration between different entities in the education sector.
Historical Madrasah in Baku, Azerbaijan
Nalanda, ancient centre for higher learning
Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii
Matteo Ricci (left) and Xu Guangqi (right) in the Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements published in 1607
World map indicating Education Index (according to 2007/2008 Human Development Report)
The OLPC laptop being introduced to children in Haiti
A class size experiment in the United States found that attending small classes for three or more years in the early grades increased high school graduation rates of students from low income families.
Knowledge Day in Donetsk, Ukraine, 2013
John Locke's work Some Thoughts Concerning Education was written in 1693 and still reflects traditional education priorities in the Western world.
Computer-supported group learning

Purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits.

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Young children in a kindergarten in Japan

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Harvard University, an Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, routinely ranks as the best, or one of the best, institutions of higher learning in the world.

Higher education

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Tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree.

Tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree.

Harvard University, an Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, routinely ranks as the best, or one of the best, institutions of higher learning in the world.
Deakin University, one of Australia's 43 universities
Mean financial wealth of US families by education of the head of household, 1989-2010
Mean income of US families by education of the head of household, 1989-2010
Courtyard, Al-Qarawiyyin University, Fes, Morocco
University of Bologna, located in Bologna, Italy, is the oldest university created under that name in the world.<ref>Top Universities World University Rankings Retrieved 2010-1-6</ref><ref>Our History - Università di Bologna</ref><ref>{{cite book |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=wyjnHZ1IIlgC&q=the+oldest+university+in+the+world+Bologna&pg=PA18 |title = The Challenge of Bologna |author= Paul L. Gaston |year=2010|page=18|isbn=978-1-57922-366-3 }}</ref>
Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, located in Mexico City, Mexico, was the first and oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas<ref>{{cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101392426|title=The first college in America: Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco.|location=Washington DC|year=1936|author1=Steck|author2=Francis Borgia}}</ref> and the first and oldest major school of interpreters and translators in the New World.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.openedition.org/uop/336?lang=es|title=The Imperial College of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco|author=Lourdes Arencibia Rodriguez}}</ref>
The University of Pennsylvania considers itself the first institution in the United States of America to use the term "university" in its name.
The University of Cambridge is an institution of higher learning in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
McGill University is an institution of higher learning in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and one of two Canadian members of the Association of American Universities.
The Moscow State University is an institution of higher learning in Moscow, Russia.
The Jeffersonian architecture of Tsinghua University, an institution of higher learning in Beijing, China.
The University of Tokyo is an institution of higher learning in Tokyo, Japan.
The University of São Paulo is an institution of higher learning in São Paulo, Brazil.

Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

Sustainable Development Goal 4

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Students affected by earthquake in new temporary class in Ecuador
School children during a lecture in Togo
World map for indicator 4.1.1 in 2015 - Percentage of pupils in early primary education grades (2 or 3) achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading.
Class Room of International Bangladesh Hope School in Bangladesh
World map for indicator 4.2.2 in 2015 - Total number of students in the theoretical age group for pre-primary education enrolled in that level, expressed as a percentage of the total population in that age group.
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World map for indicator 4.5.1 - Ratio of female school life expectancy to the male school life expectancy
Percentage of females age 15 and above who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life
Students using modern technologies during a field trip
Gross disbursements of total ODA for scholarships
Closed Daegu Daemyeong Elementary School in South Korea during COVID-19 outbreak

Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4 or Global Goal 4) is about quality education and is among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in September 2015.

The University of Bologna in Italy, founded in 1088, is often regarded as the world's oldest university in continuous operation

University

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The University of Bologna in Italy, founded in 1088, is often regarded as the world's oldest university in continuous operation
Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest university in the United States and is routinely ranked among the world's best universities
Moroccan higher-learning institution Al-Qarawiyin (founded in 859 A.D.) was transformed into a university under the supervision of the ministry of education in 1963.
Meeting of doctors at the University of Paris. From a medieval manuscript.
The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the United Kingdom and among the world's top ranked
The University of St Andrews, founded in 1410, is Scotland's oldest university and one of the UK's best ranked universities.
Old main building of the University of Basel—Switzerland's oldest university (1460). The university is among the birthplaces of Renaissance humanism
17th-century classroom at the University of Salamanca
King's College London, established by Royal Charter having been founded by King George IV and Duke of Wellington in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London.
Peking University in Beijing was founded as the Imperial University of Peking
The University of Sydney is Australia's oldest university.
The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States was founded in 1819 by American founding father Thomas Jefferson

A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.

Students attend a lecture at a tertiary institution: Helsinki University of Technology

Tertiary education

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Students attend a lecture at a tertiary institution: Helsinki University of Technology
Percentage of 25-29-year-olds who have completed at least four years of tertiary education, by wealth, selected countries, 2008-2014
Deakin University, one of Australia's 43 universities
The University of Pennsylvania, an American research university
Federal Polytechnic, Nekede in Owerri, Nigeria.

Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.

The John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute is an institution of vocational learning in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, considered one of the first in the country.

Vocational education

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The John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute is an institution of vocational learning in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, considered one of the first in the country.
OAC Vocational Education, 1922 (5857905487)

Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan.

A teacher of a Latin school and two students, 1487

Teacher

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Educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence or virtue.

Educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence or virtue.

A teacher of a Latin school and two students, 1487
A teacher interacts with older students at a school in New Zealand
A primary school teacher on a picnic with her students, Colombia, 2014
Dutch schoolmaster and children, 1662
A primary school teacher in northern Laos
The teacher-student-monument in Rostock, Germany, honors teachers
GDR "village teacher", a teacher teaching students of all age groups in one class in 1951
Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand, the beginning of the 20th century.
Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks
Teacher and pupils in liberated Guinea-Bissau, 1974.
Math and physics teacher at a junior college in Sweden, in the 1960s
Schoolmarm, a figurine by Royal Doulton
Students of a U.S. university with their professor on the far right, 2009

This article focuses on those who are employed, as their main role, to teach others in a formal education context, such as at a school or other place of initial formal education or training.

Larkmead School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England

School

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Educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.

Educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.

Larkmead School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rohtak, India
Kallavesi High School, a secondary school building in Kuopio, Finland
First primary school building in Badagry, Nigeria, built in 1845
Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii
One-room school in 1935, Alabama
Mental Calculations. In the school of S.Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895.
A madrasah in the Gambia
Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India.
A school building in Kannur, India
Albert Bettannier's 1887 painting La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate Nationalism in their pupils.
Chemistry lesson at a German Gymnasium, Bonn, 1988
A school entrance building in Australia
To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence.
ESL online learning

Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory.

School children in primary education, Chile

Primary education

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School children in primary education, Chile
Total net enrollment rate in primary education, 2015
A poster at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York, United States, showing the Millennium Development Goals
Global citizenship education for the rule of law learning outcomes at the primary level
The Catechism Lesson by Jules-Alexis Meunier
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Classroom from 1910 in a late 19 century elementary school, Het Hoogeland Openluchtmuseum.

Primary education or elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool/kindergarten and before secondary school.

Early censuses and surveys provided demographic data.

Social science

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One of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

One of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

Early censuses and surveys provided demographic data.
Buyers bargain for good prices while sellers put forth their best front in Chichicastenango Market, Guatemala.
A depiction of world's oldest university, the University of Bologna, in Italy
Map of the Earth
A trial at a criminal court, the Old Bailey in London
Ferdinand de Saussure, recognized as the father of modern linguistics
Aristotle asserted that man is a political animal in his Politics.
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was the founder of experimental psychology.
Émile Durkheim is considered one of the founding fathers of sociology.

By the late 19th century, the academic social sciences were constituted of five fields: jurisprudence and amendment of the law, education, health, economy and trade, and art.

Woman teaching geometry (Detail of a XIV-century illuminated manuscript, at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath).

Pedagogy

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Theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners.

Theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners.

Woman teaching geometry (Detail of a XIV-century illuminated manuscript, at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath).
Germany: A kindergarten teacher facilitates play for a group of children (1960)

In Scandinavia, a pedagogue (pædagog) is broadly speaking a practitioner of pedagogy, but the term is primarily reserved for individuals who occupy jobs in pre-school education (such as kindergartens and nurseries).