Atikan nyaéta pangajaran pangaweruh, kaparigelan, jeung kabiasaan sakelompok jalma anu diwariskeun ti hiji generasi ka generasi saterusna ngaliwatan pangajaran, latihan atawa panalungtikan. Atikan mindeng lumangsung dina hidayah batur, tapi ogé mungkin dina dasar otodidak. Étimologi kecap atikan sorangan asalna tina kecap Latin ducare, hartina "pikeun pituduh, langsung, atawa ngarah" jeung awalan e, hartina "pikeun kaluar". Jadi, atikan hartina kagiatan "ngarah kaluar". Sakur pangalaman anu gaduh pangaruh formatif dina cara jalma mikir, ngarasa, atanapi ngalaksanakeun tiasa dianggap pendidikan.

Hak atikan geus diakuan ku sababaraha pamaréntah. Di tingkat global, Pasal 13 tina Perjangjian Internasional ngeunaan hak ékonomi, sosial jeung budaya ngakuan hak unggal jalma pikeun atikan.  Sanajan atikan wajib di kalolobaan tempat nepi ka umur nu tangtu, attending sakola mindeng teu latihan, sarta minoritas kolotna milih sakola ti imah, e-learning atawa atikan sarupa pikeun barudak maranéhanana.

Sawangan
Atikan dimimitan mangsa keur orok lahir sarta sapanjang hirup. Atikan ogé bisa dimimitian saméméh jabang bayi lahir saperti sababaraha "kolot" nu ngadengekeun lagu atawa maca buku mangsa kakandungan nu diharepkeun bakal méré  atikan ka orokna. Kanggo sababaraha, perjuangan sareng kameunangan kahirupan sapopoe jauh langkung instruktif tibatan sakola formal Mark Twain: "Kuring henteu pernah ngantep sakola ngaganggu pendidikan kuring.") Anggota kulawarga ngagaduhan pangaruh pendidikan anu cukup jero - sering langkung jero tibatan anu dibayangkeun. — sanajan téknik pangajaran kulawarga bisa jadi kacida informal.

Formal education occurs when society makes a commitment to educate péople, usually the young. Formal education can be systematic and thorough, but the sponsoring group may seek selfish advantages when shaping impressionable young scholars.

Life-long or dewasa education]] has become widespréad. Many dewasa have given up the notion that only anak kecil ren belong in sekolah. beberapa orang dewasa are enrolled in post-secondary education schools, both part-time and full time, where they are often classified as non-traditional students in order to distinguish them administratively from young adults entering directly from high school.

Computing devices can change when and where we léarn. This is the computer based or networked léarning structure, in which péople contribute to éach others' education. It is defined as online education (a subset of distance education), the European Graduate School as a University operates during the summer, it serves as a meeting point for péople that has participated in online forums through the academic yéar, this methodology is a bréak to the traditional educational system.

Categories
Classical education – Reading – Math – Language – Science – Ethics – Physical education – Religious education – Music education

Challenges in education

In well-developed countries 
 Entertaining world distract student's attention
see Current issues in teaching
 Program Evaluation Answering questions such as does education "work", or how to improve education.

In developing countries 
 Small incomes of téachers
 Péople unaware the importance of education
 Economical pressure of parents who want their children to work as laborers
 Program Evaluation

Formal education
Early childhood education – Primary education – Secondary education – Tertiary education – Quaternary education– Higher education – Vocational education – Post-secondary education – University – College – School – Further education

Student activism
Student activism – Student-led school change – Student Developed Education Policy

Educational policy
Literacy – Testing & policy– Education reform – School choice – Charter schools – Meaningful student involvement – Student voice – Student Developed Education Policy – Social promotion

Informal and alternative education
Early instruction – Home schooling – Unschooling – Lifelong education – Democratic Schools – Alternative school – Montessori method – Waldorf school – Online education – Distance education – Museum – Planetarium – Nature center – deschooling– political education

Extracurricular education
Academic Decathlon – University Interscholastic League (UIL)  – International science olympiad

Teori jeung metodologi
Philosophy of education – Teaching method – Instructional theory – Learning theory – Learning disability – Instructional technology – Education Psychology – Behaviorism – Problem-based learning – Active learning – Outcome-based education – Reggio Emilia approach – Cooperative education – collaborative learning – Transformative learning – experiential education – Situated learning – Adult education – Critical pedagogy

Atikan dumasar nagara
Atikan dumasar ka nagara – Daftar sakola jeung paguron luhur dumasar nagara

Atikan jeung kolot
Parents'_Rights_Coalition
British Columbia Parents and Teachers for Life

Biograpi
F. Matthias Alexander
Catherine Baker
Benjamin Bloom
Garth Boomer
Jim Cummins
John Dewey
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Moshe Feldenkrais
Paulo Freire
Robert M. Gagne
Ivan Illich
Maria Montessori
A.S. Neill
Seymour Papert
Ivan Pavlov
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Jean Piaget
Plato
Neil Postman
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B.F. Skinner
Lev Vygotsky

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