It is commonly believed in the United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.

   Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life.

   Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the workings of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught.

   For example, high school students know that they are not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.

The passage supports which of the following conclusions?

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• Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

• What is the purpose of the paragraph 1?

• If you have a desire to travel, when does the writer suggest that you do it?

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• The passage supports which of the following conclusions?

• The passage is mainly about ...............

• It can be inferred from paragraph 1 that Mantle ______.

• It can be inferred from the passage that the sounds produced by the trees ...............

• According to the passage, approximately how many non-native users of English are there in the world today?

• Which of the following is NOT true?

• In the 2^nd paragraph, what weakness in nineteenth-century histories does the author point out?

• How would the author probably characterize the people who are mentioned in the first line of the second paragraph .............

• The author mentions all of the following as concerns of telecommuting, EXCEPT ...........

• Which of the following statements does paragraph 1 support?

• The word “odd” refers to which of the following?

• What would happen if you pressed the snooze button?

• What happened when the writer's father came?

• What does the passage mainly discuss?

• What is not true about the Beatles?

• The word “means” in the passage most closely means ______.

• In the paragraph following the passage most probably discusses  ..............