Of course, what is drawn out and how soon depends very much on the skills and ability of the teacher. Education also serves another important role, which is to transmit and transform the cultural values, and legacy of a particular society. Education is said to be playing a conservative role when it merely transmits the prevailing cultural values and beliefs from one generation to the next. It is also capable of playing a more radical role when it attempts to reform society. In general, education plays both a conservative and a radical role in the progress of civilization.
Education is a lifelong process.
Thus, the potential of learning begins as early as a few months after conception. The home is the most important institution of informal education. In it, learning takes place in an unstructured and indirect manner. School is the most important institution of learning for formal education. In it, learning experiences are structured and organized systematically to achieve specific learning outcomes.