The Controversy Over The Purpose Of Universal Education

Universal Education Learning is a universal concept; it is a part of daily life for every human being, no matter their age or location. Although education is standardized regionally, it can be ordinarily defined as the pursuit of knowledge, or it may be alternately described as a route to a culturally “well-rounded” adult. Aside from simply defining the term, there is a constant debate over the purpose of education. One Stanford University Graduate student argues that education should be recognized as “a multi-purpose enterprise that can be unified under one great aim: to produce better adults” (Noddings 232). Ultimately, however, there are many facets to education, each of them correlative to the ultimate social goal of producing “better

Social education is different from socialization because socialization is the foundation for all other learning, whereas social education is more in depth and expresses nuances of human behavior as well as societal response to behavior. Socialization is early learning that makes other aspects of education easier to teach; as previously insinuated in this essay, socialization is how a person first learns how to determine ‘right’ from ‘wrong’ or respect obvious authorities like parents. Social education begins outside of the home in settings that require interaction with those other than immediate family and initiates an individual’s moral senses. Earlier interactions “lay the brick” for later interactions, even those with more than mere acquaintances. Social education is the reason why there is a distinction between ‘right’ or ‘wrong’; imagine that without social education, the world may be even more heavily bogged down by criminal activity or uncivilized behavior. Instilling social standards is important to begin at a young age, however this process lasts a lifetime. From the point of birth to death, individuals are influenced and sculpted by popular belief of their born culture and comparing those of the world