EDUCATION · READER EDITION

Education turns experience, explanation and practice into independent capability.

A learner begins somewhere, encounters new ideas, tries to use them, makes errors, receives feedback and gradually becomes able to perform with less support.

• Input: explanation, demonstration, reading and experience.
• Construction: making meaning and connecting ideas.
• Practice: retrieving and using what was learned.
• Transfer: applying it when the question or context changes.
• Feedback: using results to decide what still needs repair.

Schools, teachers, parents, tutors and resources can all support this process. But the eventual measure is what the learner can reliably understand and do.

Education is not the amount of teaching delivered. It is the capability that survives in the learner.