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EDUCATION AND HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN INDIA

Albert Einstein a physicist and a phenomenal educator said “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school”. Education is what makes you different in the herd, it sets your personality, groom you in many ways, it gives wings to your knowledge. Education can be defined as a process of facilitating  learning , or the attainment of  knowledge ,  skills ,  values ,  beliefs , and  habits . I believe education is an integral part of human life since its existence, in prehistory, as adults trained the young in the knowledge and skills deemed necessary in their society. In pre- literate  cultures this was achieved orally and with help of simulation. Story-telling passed knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to the next. As societies began to extend their  knowledge  beyond skills that could be readily learned through imitation, formal education developed. The history of education date back centuries, Plato  founded the  Academy  in  Athens , the