Education and schooling are two terms that are often associated with these conditions. While education and schooling are sometimes thought to be interchangeable, there are some important distinctions. From this perspective, education is serving primarily an individual development function. In this sense, education is serving a social and cultural function. Schooling Teaching and learning that takes place in formal environments.
Education begins at birth and continues throughout life.
It is constant and ongoing. Schooling generally begins somewhere between 4 and 6 when children are gathered together for the purposes of specific guidance related to skills and competencies that society deems important. However, in today's information age , adults are quite often learning in formal settings throughout their working lives and even into retirement. These larger questions are addressed to some extent in educational psychology courses, but are more readily addressed in developmental psychology and foundations of education courses. That is why these courses are prerequisites to courses in educational psychology.