Definition of Basic Education
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, on Feb. 2012
It can easily be said that the education Basic education is the most important education that an individual receives since it is the one that allows obtain elementary knowledge from which to deepen their intellectual sense and rational. Basic education is part of what is known as formal education, that is, that type of teaching that is organized in levels or stages, that has objectives clear and that is taught in institutions specially designated for it (schools, colleges, institutes). While it is also possible for a child to receive basic knowledge from a tutor or even from their own family, the school is always the main responsible for transmitting to most of the population what is considered as elementary and necessary knowledge.
We could point out as the most distinctive elements of basic education two types of knowledge: On the other hand, those that have to do with the development of reading comprehension skills, that is, reading and to write. On the other hand, basic or elementary education is also dedicated to teaching basic mathematical operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is considered that from this primary combination of knowledge, the person can begin to communicate much better with the rest of society, as well as develop their capacities intellectual and logical.
The organization of basic education varies from country to country and even in some places public basic education is not the same as private basic education. In general terms, basic or elementary education begins around the age of six and lasts until approximately twelve or thirteen years of the child, at which point it should begin with the secondary education in which knowledge is much more specific and more clearly divided into areas (for example, instead of being social Sciences there is history, education civic, philosophy, geography, etc.). In most countries basic education is compulsory and universal, which means that it does not depend on institutions such as the Church (although there may be private schools that do) but it is organized and carried out by the State, which gives it a much more democratic and integrator.
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