Education is a conscious and deliberate effort to create an atmosphere of learning and the learning process so that learners are actively developing the potential for him to have a religious spiritual strength, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, as well as the skills needed themselves and society.
Education typically begins when a baby is born and lasts a lifetime. Education could have originated from before birth as is done by many people to play music and read to the baby in the womb in the hope he can teach their babies before birth.
For some, the experience of everyday life is more meaningful than formal education. As Mark Twain said, "I never let school interfere with my education."
Family members have the most profound teaching role, often deeper than they realized, although the teaching of family members running unofficially.
According to Horton and Hunt, educational institutions relating to real functions (manifest) the following:
Latent functions of educational institutions are as follows.
According to David Popenoe, there are five kinds of education function is as follows:
Every country in the world has its own education system, with a traditional role of parents of a child (or their substitute) to bring this child to the ways of adulthood, and often increasing intervention of States.
Education is seen as an important part of people development, hence the development of a right to education. A good educational system is a major advantage.