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Education began in prehistory, as adults trained the young in the knowledge and skills deemed necessary in their society. In pre-literate societies, this was achieved orally and through imitation. Story-telling passed knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to the next.

EL Education was founded in 1991 and currently serves 440,000 students in diverse communities across the country. It investigates how the aims of education, like the transmission of knowledge or fostering skills and character traits, can be realized. It is particularly interested in the methods and practices used for teaching in regular schools and some researchers restrict it to …

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This effect can be observable in the other way, in that education increases measurable intelligence. Studies have proven that while academic attainment is important in predicting intelligence in later life, intelligence at 53 is more carefully correlated to intelligence at eight years old than to academic attainment. The internationalization of education is sometimes equated by critics with the westernization of education. These critics say that the internationalization of education results in the erosion of native education techniques and indigenous values and norms, which are changed with Western systems and cultural and ideological values and orientation.

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