Education

An infant Homosapiens must learn a very great deal and acquire a vast number of conditioned reflexes and habit patterns in order to live effectively, not only in society but in a particular kind of sociocultural system. This process taken as a whole is called Socialization.
Education is the process by which the culture of a sociocultural system is impressed or imposed upon the plastic, receptive infant. It's this process that makes continuity of culture possible. Education, formal and informal is the specific means of Socialization. By informal education is meant the way a child learns to adapt his behaviour to that of others, to be like others, to become a member of a group. By formal education is meant the intentional and more or less systematic effort to affect the behaviour of others by transmitting elements of the culture to them, be it knowledge patterns of behaviour, or ideals and values. In myths and tales certain characters are presented as heroes or villans; certain traits are extolled, others are deplored or denounced. The impressionable child acquires ideals and values, an image of the good or the bad. The growing child is immersed in the fountain of informal education constantly; the formal education tends to be periodic.
First there is infancy, during which perhaps the most profound and enduring influences of a person's life are brought to bear.There is a moment in which boy and girls are distinguished from each other. Puberty rites transform children into men and women. These rites vary enormously in emphasis an content. Sometimes they include whipping, isolation, scarification or circumcision.