Education

The question I am required to answer is simply this "What is Education?" And according to the dictionary "ed·u·ca·tion–noun
1.the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2.the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession. 3.a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university education. 4.the result produced by instruction, training, or study: to show one's education. 5.the science or art of teaching; pedagogic."
But that seems to me like a lot to read and think about so simply I am going to answer that this question is ridiculous for the reasoning that Education is anything you think in a greater manner of. Riding a bike to simply breathing your always learning farther in the way of what you’re doing.
You see education is just being alive, when you’re alive you can absorb the world around you. You learn what colors are and what scares you, you learn about what your first kiss is like you learn about everything. Even if you were alive and surrounded by nothing you would still wonder and develop theories about why your here, why your alive. Just simple things like that are education.
Education can be whatever you think about because based on the knowledge you just learned you know next time how to react to that situation and maybe even then be educated farther, by learning what not to do next time, questions, questions are learning. Life is one big educational process in which you learn trust, betrayal, friendship, hate, love, you may learn that none of it matters and that when you die it wont matter anyways, you may take another route and realize that every day is special and live it to "the max" and enjoy everything you do, but no matter how you see the world your still being educated. In the movie "Dead Poets Society" The captain expressed how true education doesn’t come from a book it comes from the way you see the world and how you understand the things you see, someone can look at a river as in the short story of "Two Ways Of Seeing The River" and see just a large quantity of water moving down the stream, or someone can see something beautiful, or even in some cases they look for warnings of things to come or may not even see it at all, but the education in all of those views come from the experiences you have had throughout your life make the things you see seem better or worse than they actually are, someone who has eaten the same food they’re whole life like pizza, wont see it the same way as someone who gets it only on small occasion or how they ask whether a doctor see’s the girls blushing cheeks or if he’s examining the symptoms she may have in an Illness and wondering if she’s ok. Where do you leave your professional life if you do leave it at all? It’s all because you may have been educated to look for certain things that others wouldn’t even notice.
This is where we learn that sometimes one must put down they’re profession or personal beliefs in life if only for a little while in ability to control an influence not over only our own thoughts but how we influence others, or dictate others in the movie Dead Poets Society we learn that although a lot of things may seem right and ideals help people liberate themselves and others from the norm it must also sometimes be limited and that is education as well or atleast you must attempt for the right time as you would if you were going to ask a parent for a toy, you would not ask them if they were upset or angry, only if they seem bright n cheery.
In short, the question on education my friends is… Ridiculous.

Dead Poets Society. Dir. Peter Weir. Perf. Robin Williams. DVD. Touchstone Pictures, 1989.
Eiseley, Loren. The Hidden Teacher.
Malcolm X, and Alex Haley. How I Discovered Words: a Homemade Education.
Twain, Mark. Two Ways of Seeing the River.