Introduction
An Institution is a society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose. It can also be described as an established law, practice, or custom.
Educational Institution is the organization established for the purpose of learning. It is the institution arranged for the purpose of passing knowledge and to build characters and moral in the life of the benefactors
Forms of Education
Formal Education: This is a form of education where learning takes place in an organized and well structured place. it is a well structured and planned means of teaching student. It takes place in the four wall of a classroom where there is a teacher and students and the learning is guided by a planned curriculum.
Formal Educational Institutions are:
Nursery, primary and secondary schools
University, polytechnics, colleges, vocational schools etc.
Functions of formal Education
- Students learn how to read and write
- It helps in developing the mental skill of the students
- It is a creation of job opportunities, e.g teachers,administrators etc
- Formal education helps to keep one knowledgable
- Formal education helps a nation to develop
- It helps student to relate with other students from different home
Informal Education: It is unplanned means of teaching, education takes place anywhere, by anybody, it is not structured or organized.It is a form of training given to children from their home, it could be from parents, sisters, grandparents, uncles etc.
Informal Educational Instititution
Mentoring, Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is the means or process of learning a particular job or trade at a particular time while the person who learns it is called apprentice
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