The so-called formal education mainly refers to school education, that is, the education that students receive in organized educational institutions, such as our primary education and secondary education.

In this kind of education, school teachers educate students purposefully, planned and organized, and students can also obtain corresponding academic qualifications after graduation, so it can also be called academic education. In addition, this kind of education can be called institutionalized education because of its rigorous academic system.

non-formal education

Non-formal education refers to organized and systematic activities outside the formal education system, which selectively provide learning forms for adults and children.

This kind of education is actually a clear education for educators and educatees besides academic education, such as adult continuing education, social training and on-the-job training. What they have in common is that education is not for obtaining academic qualifications, but for improving their abilities.

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Disadvantages of formal education: Education in a general sense refers to formal school education, and its advantages and functions are obvious. However, formal education can neither teach people all the knowledge and experience they need in their life, nor meet people's various educational needs arising from social and economic development.

Informal education refers to an unorganized and unsystematic lifelong process in which everyone learns and accumulates knowledge and skills from daily life experience and living environment (family, work unit and society) and forms attitudes and opinions.

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